<div dir="ltr"><br><div>The slow movements of Haydn's op. 76, no. 5 in D major, Cantabile e mesto, and of his Piano Trio in F-sharp minor (Hob. XV/26), are in F-sharp major. When he transcribed the Trio's Adagio for the B-flat Symphony no. 102, he transposed to F major.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is also the F-sharp major second movement of Shostakovich's Piano Trio in E minor, op. 67.</div><div><br></div><div>David Clampitt</div><div>The Ohio State University</div><div><a href="mailto:clampitt.4@osu.edu">clampitt.4@osu.edu</a> </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Stephen Jablonsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jablonsky@optimum.net" target="_blank">jablonsky@optimum.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:BookmanOldStyle;font-size:large">Eric’s story is terribly amusing and validates my suspicion that there is something special about F sharp major aside from the fact that it is as far away from C major on the Circle of 5ths as you can get. I will continue to collect data from my SMT friends and will report back in a week. Movements qualify for my list but not themes or sections. I do think it is interesting that in the last three hundred years such a small number of pieces are in this key when there are 12 trillion pieces in D. F# major, as many have pointed out, sits very well under the hand on the piano and Irving Berlin knew that better than anyone.</span><div>
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<br></div><div><div class="h5"><div><div>On May 19, 2014, at 9:15 AM, Lai, Eric C. <<a href="mailto:Eric_Lai@baylor.edu" target="_blank">Eric_Lai@baylor.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
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<font size="4">It happened one day during my undergraduate years. I was practicing Liszt's "L<span style="background-color:rgb(235,234,228)"><span style="line-height:20px">es jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este" when the door was suddenly flung open and in
came one of my theory professors. He asked, "Is that piece you're playing in F# or Gb?" I answered, "F-sharp major." He then looked up to the ceiling, contemplated for a few seconds, and left the room without saying a word. I am still amused (and puzzled)
every time I recall this </span></span><span style="line-height:20px">anecdote.</span></font>
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<div><font size="4"><span style="line-height:20px">BTW, he has one of the most interesting personalities I have ever encountered. He would always lie down on the pedestrian walkway in front of the school building with his radio next to him because, according
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<div>On May 18, 2014, at 9:38 PM, Stephen Jablonsky <<a href="mailto:jablonsky@optimum.net" target="_blank">jablonsky@optimum.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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I know that many of our members in academe are preparing for the end of the school year and have little time for a dalliance with a particular key and the rest of you have busy lives as well. I, on the other hand, being a lifteime composer, have a mild case
of OCD and could not let go of this inquiry into the frequency of usage of F sharp major. A cursory search of the Internet, and some help from friends, has produced what may be the first definitive list of works in this very rare key. Obviously, the list does
not include works that attempt to do things in every key. G flat major is another story for another day.
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<div><p class="MsoNormal">Beethoven Sonata No. 24, op.78<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Chopin Nocturne op. 15, No. 2; Barcarole, op. 60; Impromptu, op. 36<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dvorak Humoresque, B. 138 (op. 32)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Huré Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Korngold Symphony, op. 40<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">Liszt “Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude” from
<i>Harmonies poetique et religieuses, III<u></u><u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal">Mahler Symphony No. 10<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Scarlatti Sonatas, K. 318 and 319<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Schumann Romance, op. 28, No. 2<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Scriabin Sonata No. 4, op. 30; Poeme, op. 32. No. 1<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Soler Sonata, Rubio 90<u></u><u></u></p>
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