Talk:G-sharp major

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Shouldn't E-sharp minor redirect to F minor if G-sharp major redirects to A-flat major? And if F-flat major and D-flat minor have articles and don't redirect tp E major and C-sharp minor, shouldn't G-sharp major and E-sharp minor have their own articles too? --116.14.26.124 (talk) 05:25, 4 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

G sharp major → G-sharp major — Please move this page to G-sharp major so as to be consistent with all the rest of the articles. ²³¹₉₁Pa (chat me!) 14:02, 14 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

The only reference does not have any content on the page related to the article. Other pages (pg 83 and pg 84) talk about G-sharp (note) and G-sharp minor, but nothing on G-sharp major and therefore makes the whole reference completely invalid. I suggest that another reference should be found to support this article. Jojofunny123 (talk) 13:05, 7 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

An anonymous editor added the variant where F double-sharp appears at the beginning, and placed it above the other variant, which has both F sharp (at the beginning) and F double-sharp (at the end). Please note that the latter was the one ALREADY on the page. User: Michael Bednarek, mistakenly thinking that the latter was the one added by the anonymous user (due to the order change), and disapproving of it, reverted the edit...with the result that only it remained, and the version he presumably approved of more was gone!

In any case, however, both the anonymous user and the original editor are in the right, and User: Michael Bednarek is in the wrong on the substance of the matter. The variant with F-double-sharp at the beginning is the default in Finale, and corresponds to Victor Ewald's usage (in the case of flats). Meanwhile, the variant with both F-sharp and F-double-sharp is used by Max Reger in his Supplement to the Theory of Modulation. See Key_signature#Double_flats_and_sharps for the relevant citations. Komponisto (talk) 10:44, 29 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Readers require references to be presented in the article, so please add it here – although it seems Reger presents this method, accidental + double accidental, only for flats. The other question is whether this method has any wider usage or is just a one-off curio. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 13:35, 29 March 2026 (UTC)Reply