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Author: Dawn 
Date:   2002-01-30 21:12

I have just started playing again after several years Can any one tell me how to play an E-sharp? I just bought new sheet music and came across this note. I have not seen this on any fingering chart and don't remember ever encountering it before.

Thanks!

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 RE: fingering
Author: GBK 
Date:   2002-01-30 21:14

E# is the enharmonic name for F (natural).

Just finger an F.

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 RE: fingering
Author: sarah 
Date:   2002-01-30 21:23

Sometimes you see notes with double sharps and double flats too. For those you just raise (or lower) the original note a whole step. So, a Bbb would be fingered the same way as an A. And a Cx would be fingered the same as a D.

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 RE: fingering
Author: Joel Clifton 
Date:   2002-01-31 01:40

I've always wondered about that. When I read things like Brahms' symphonies in full score, I see that, expecially an x, quite often. Why do the composers double-flat or double-sharp notes? What purpose does it serve?

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 RE: fingering
Author: diz 
Date:   2002-01-31 01:47

It's all to do with the "correct" usage depending on the key your in. If a note is already sharp(ened) by virtue of the key signature, then if it's to be raised in pitch by a semitone, then a double sharp is the only thing that will achieve this - to keep within the rules of "correct" usage. Same goes for flats.

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 RE: fingering
Author: Dan Borlawsky 
Date:   2002-02-01 17:21

Yes, Diz, correct usage AND harmonic correctness. If you're analyzing harmonies (for example) in the key of E major, and you see chord members C# - F - A-Flat - B, it's confusing. If the chord were written C# - E# - G# - B, you would know at a glance that it's a dominant seventh chord built on the sixth tone of the scale, and you would know what it should sound like.

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