
Get Volume 3 (Advanced, Concert Level, Grades 8-11) of Complete Guide to Major & Minor Scales - PDF | Hardcopy This article explains and justifies the fingerings used in Volume 3 (the double-note volume) of BachScholar’s Complete Guide to Major & Minor Scales. Determining the most logical and practical fingerings for double-note scales is difficult and elusive. Practicing scales in double notes is difficult but highly rewarding, in that the required techniques involved imbue students with incredible control, power, flexibility, and finger independence. Largely neglected by students and teachers from America and other western nations, double-note scales have for at least two centuries been the cornerstone of the “Russian Piano School”. (Abstract) No scale system would be complete without scales in double thirds and sixths. The key signature is shown as in the LilyPond example with the scale above, starting with the C ♯ and ending at the F. The final pages of A World Requiem by John Foulds are written in G-sharp major with its correct key signature shown in the vocal score including the F. The end of the exposition of the second movement Charles-Valentin Alkan's Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges', subtitled Quasi-Faust, is in G-sharp major, albeit written with a six-sharp key signature (the movement opens in D-sharp minor and ends in F-sharp major). 1 is in G-sharp major, although the key signature has four sharps. A section in the second movement of Chopin's Piano Concerto No.

G-sharp major is tonicised briefly in several of Frédéric Chopin's nocturnes in C-sharp minor. The G-sharp minor prelude (and the fugue) from the same set ends with a Picardy third, on a G-sharp major chord. You can download the audio file.Īlthough the enharmonic key of A-flat major is preferred because A-flat major has only four flats as opposed to G-sharp major's eight sharps (including the F ), G-sharp major appears as a secondary key area in several works in sharp keys, most notably in the Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major from Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. Audio playback is not supported in your browser.
