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<h2 id="scale-degree-chords">Scale degree chords</h2> <p>The <a href="/facts/Scale_degree/XooEJJya">scale degree</a> chords of C-sharp major are: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Tonic_(music)/3YWh9zFV">Tonic</a> – C-sharp major</li> <li><a href="/facts/Supertonic/yrYUUqyS">Supertonic</a> – <a href="/facts/D-sharp_minor/Ncpo8ohI">D-sharp minor</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Mediant/KjHgHP56">Mediant</a> – <a href="/facts/E-sharp_minor/JqsS5mbQ">E-sharp minor</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Subdominant/0lfRwEfa">Subdominant</a> – <a href="/facts/F-sharp_major/Ltx7tJDR">F-sharp major</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Dominant_(music)/g5sd8AHg">Dominant</a> – <a href="/facts/G-sharp_major/BAwoC3bq">G-sharp major</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Submediant/hLhXdzfM">Submediant</a> – <a href="/facts/A-sharp_minor/vDywpnfx">A-sharp minor</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Leading-tone/oqelFQoq">Leading-tone</a> – <a href="/facts/Diminished_triad/M5G6mgsu">B-sharp diminished</a></li></ul> <h2 id="compositions">Compositions</h2> <p>Most composers prefer to use the <a href="/facts/Enharmonic/lSwDb7JN">enharmonic</a> equivalent <a href="/facts/D-flat_major/9kMbeHvT">D-flat major</a> since it contains five flats as opposed to C-sharp major's seven sharps. However, <a href="/facts/Johann_Sebastian_Bach/qA71yhEb">Johann Sebastian Bach</a> chose C-sharp major for Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in both books of <i><a href="/facts/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier/nJWK5Rzb">The Well-Tempered Clavier</a></i>. In <a href="/facts/Hungarian_Rhapsody_No._6/GQDE6lpf">Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6</a>, <a href="/facts/Franz_Liszt/Ihep88h9">Franz Liszt</a> takes the unusual step of changing the key from <a href="/facts/D-flat_major/9kMbeHvT">D-flat major</a> to C-sharp major near the start of the piece, and then back again to B-flat minor. <a href="/facts/Maurice_Ravel/PrvyAqHB">Maurice Ravel</a> selected C-sharp major as the tonic key of "Ondine" from his piano suite <i><a href="/facts/Gaspard_de_la_nuit/fg5YKkBN">Gaspard de la nuit</a></i>. <a href="/facts/Erich_Wolfgang_Korngold/SJy1loTF">Erich Wolfgang Korngold</a> composed his <a href="/facts/Piano_Concerto_for_the_Left_Hand_(Korngold)/12tCJDft">Piano Concerto for the Left Hand</a>, Op. 17, in C-sharp. </p><p>The <i><a href="/facts/Allegro_de_concierto/6Rmlsbhd">Allegro de concierto</a></i> by Spanish composer <a href="/facts/Enrique_Granados/lSALnsN5">Enrique Granados</a> is written in C-sharp major. Canadian composer and pianist <a href="/facts/Frank_Mills/VPzpPeMT">Frank Mills</a> originally wrote and performed his instrumental hit "<a href="/facts/Music_Box_Dancer/1GsqSfjx">Music Box Dancer</a>" in C-sharp major; however, most modern piano editions have the piece written in <a href="/facts/C_major/20GWzL2C">C major</a>. </p><p><a href="/facts/Louis_Vierne/V0Lc876L">Louis Vierne</a> used C-sharp major for the "Dona nobis pacem" of the Agnus Dei of his <i><a href="/facts/Messe_solennelle_(Vierne)/Lp5mLxSo">Messe solennelle</a></i> in C-sharp minor. </p> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Lester, Joel (Spring 1978). "The Recognition of Major and Minor Keys in German Theory: 1680–1730". <i><a href="/facts/Journal_of_Music_Theory/TpKcmW21">Journal of Music Theory</a></i>. 22 (1). <a href="/facts/Duke_University_Press/g17FW49q">Duke University Press</a>: 65–103. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F843628">10.2307/843628</a>. <a href="/facts/JSTOR_(identifier)/YTeVmaJ7">JSTOR</a> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/843628">843628</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.cisdur.de/e_cisdur.html">List of compositions in C-sharp major</a></li></ul>