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{{Infobox Scale|
| image_name=A-major f-sharp-minor.svg
|  scale_name=F{{music|sharp}} minor
|  relative=[[A major]]
|  parallel=[[F-sharp major|F{{music|sharp}} major]]
|  first_pitch=F{{music|sharp}}
|  second_pitch=G{{music|sharp}}
|  third_pitch=A
|  fourth_pitch=B
|  fifth_pitch=C{{music|sharp}}
|  sixth_pitch=D
|  seventh_pitch=E
}}
'''F-sharp minor''' is a [[minor scale]] based on F sharp. Its [[key signature]] has three sharps. 

Its [[relative key|relative major]] is [[A major]].

Many people think it is a [[wikt:melancholy|melancholy]] and [[:en:wikt:gloomy|gloomy]] key.
[[Harry Farjeon]] says that F sharp minor is "light red", and that it is the key [[Mendelssohn]] uses when he is being passionate.
[[Johann Mattheson]] wrote that 'F{{music|sharp}} minor, although it leads to great [[wikt:distress|distress]], [[wikt:nevertheless|nevertheless]] is more [[:en:wikt:languid|languid]] and love-sick than [[wikt:lethal|lethal]]. [[wikt:moreover|Moreover]], it has something [[wikt:abandon|abandoned]], [[wikt:singular|singular]], and [[:en:wikt:misanthropic|misanthropic]] about it.'

==Famous music in this key==
Very few symphonies are written in this key. [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]]'s ''[[Symphony No. 45 (Haydn)|Farewell Symphony]]'' is one famous example. [[George Frederick Bristow]] and [[Dora Pejačević]] also wrote symphonies in this key.

Many piano pieces have been written in F-sharp minor.
[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]'s only composition in this key is the second movement to his [[Piano Concerto No. 23 (Mozart)|Piano Concerto No. 23]] in [[A major]]. 2 of [[Chopin]]'s 52 [[mazurka]]s, and 1 of his [[nocturne]]s are in this key, though he seems to have liked the related key [[C-sharp minor]] better. [[Scriabin]]'s [[Piano Sonata No. 3 (Scriabin)|Piano Sonata No. 3]] is also in this key, and the 3rd movement of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Piano Sonata is too.

Both [[Max Reger|Reger]]'s and [[Michael Tippett|Tippett]]'s second string quartets are in this key, and so is Shostakovich's seventh string quartet.

== Scales and keys ==
{{Circle of fifths}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* A. Morris, "Symphonies, Numbers And Keys" in ''Bob's Poetry Magazine'', [http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs03Mr.pdf III.3] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928044823/http://bobspoetry.com/Bobs03Mr.pdf |date=2007-09-28 }}, 2006.


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