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F-sharp major

Relative key	D-sharp minor
Parallel key	F-sharp minor
Component pitches
F#, G#, A#, B, C#, D#, E#, F#

Also see: F-sharp minor, or F# computer language.

F-sharp major is a major scale based on F-sharp, consisting of the pitches F-sharp, G-sharp, A-sharp, B, C-sharp, D-sharp, E-sharp, and F-sharp. Its key signature has six sharps (see below: Scales and keys). The note F-sharp is a semitone between F & G.

Its relative minor is D sharp minor, and its parallel minor is F sharp minor. Its enharmonic equivalent is G flat major.

Domenico Scarlatti wrote just two keyboard sonatas in this key, K. 318 and K. 319. He did not use C# major, with one more (7 total) sharps, at any time in his sonatas.

Ascending and descending F-sharp major scale.

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 10 (1910, unfinished; finished later from Mahler's sketches by many, most famously Deryck Cooke) (though there are some inner movements of other symphonies that are in this key) is one of very few symphonies in the standard repertoire that is written mostly in this key; another is Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Symphony in F# major, op. 40 (1947 - 1954).

One of Alexander Scriabin's Piano Sonatas, no. 4 (1903), is in F sharp major; and his next Sonata, no. 5 (1907), is often questionably labelled as being in this key too; however, it is probably truer to regard its tonality as vague, but with certain weak links to the key of F-sharp major - it came at the time in Scriabin's career when traditional tonality was seriously starting to dissolve in his harmonic language. Despite this, his considerably later symphonic poem Prometheus: The Poem of Fire (1910) for piano, orchestra, and wordless chorus (sometimes called his Symphony no. 5), while very tonally vague, has a strong basis on the note F#, which culminates in the piece's ending on a strong F-sharp major triad, and a case can be made out that it is more in F# major than the aforementioned Sonata no. 5.

Also, the final bars of Sergei Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto are in this key. Other well known pieces in this key are "Va Pensiero" from Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi and "Dunque e Proprio Finito" from La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini.

The friska from Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 is in F sharp major.

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Diatonic Scales and Keys
	Flats Sharps Major minor Major minor 0 C (Major), a (minor) 1 F d G e 2 B♭ g D b 3 E♭ c A f♯ 4 A♭ f E c♯ 5 D♭ b♭ B g♯ 6 G♭ e♭ F♯ d♯ 7 C♭ a♭ C♯ a♯
lower case letters are minor                         the table indicates the number of sharps or flats in each scale

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