F♯ major or F-sharp major is a major scale based on F♯, consisting of the pitches F♯, G♯,A♯, B, C♯, D♯, and E♯. Its key signature has six sharps.[1]
Its relative minor is D♯ minor (or enharmonically E♭ minor). Its parallel minor isF♯ minor. Its enharmonic equivalent is G♭major. In writing music for transposing instruments in B-flat or E-flat, it is preferable to use a G-flat rather than an F-sharp key signature. If F-sharp major must absolutely be used, one should take care that B-flat wind instruments be notated in A-flat major, rather than G-sharp major (or G instruments used instead, giving a transposed key of B major), and D-flat instruments in F major instead of E-sharp major, in order to avoid double sharps in key signatures.
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