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Removed the "G# #" in the component pitches. Even though the harmonic minor has a raised seventh, the Major/minor symmetry is best seen through the natural version of the minor---after all, the related Major and minor pairs share the same key signature just to reflect this elegant symmetry. This is also consistent with Wikipedia articles describing other minor keys. Also added in the phrase "the enharmonic name" in front of "A# Major" to avoid a trivial semantic pitfall.

Is it just me, or are the number of sharps not counted correctly? It looks like in the music that there are only 7 sharps, and there isn't a G-sharp... --HappyCamper 00:15, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, nevermind. [1] . --HappyCamper 00:26, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

However, there were some composers in previous centuries that have composed music in this key.

If possible, it would be good to have some examples of these pieces given. I can probably find a few passages in A-sharp minor in pieces whose main key is some other key (probably a remote sharp key); but I cannot actually think of a whole piece or even a whole theme or section in this key.

I have a feeling I saw one or two pieces in A-sharp minor on imslp.org before its sad, recent demise; but I cannot remember what they are. If the person who wrote the above quote can remember any examples, it would be good to insert them into the article. (If I come across the .pdfs of pieces in this key I got from imslp.org, I will insert citations of them.) M.J.E. 09:06, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've never heard of anything written in A-sharp minor, and this is the only piece I can find on Google. Various composers wrote sets of pieces in "all the major and minor keys", but not a single one of them, as far as I can discover, deigned to give A-sharp minor a guernsey. They were happy enough to write pieces in C-sharp major, G-flat major and E-flat minor, all with 7 sharps or flats in the key signature, but when it comes to A-sharp minor, they all chickened out and went for B-flat minor instead. Just imagine if Tchaikovsky had written his Piano Concerto No. 1 in A-sharp minor. What fun. See also a related discussion at Talk:The Well-Tempered Clavier#All 24 Major and Minor Keys. -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 11:11, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See Music written in all 24 major and minor keys for further information. -- ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ ^{[your turn]} 07:43, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hitherto, the leading note for A-sharp minor, G-double-sharp, was written in the article as "G##". I have changed this to "Gx". The former may seem logical, but in fact double-sharps in music are never notated with a doubled sharp sign like this, but instead represented as a little diagonally-oriented cross-shaped symbol with each end thickened. This does not look exactly like a lower-case "x", but the "x" is the closest way of representing the symbol with ordinary text characters. M.J.E. 18:40, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is a Unicode symbol. Please use that symbol. --2001:16B8:31D6:1800:F917:45FD:1A6A:8AD7 (talk) 01:00, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion about how A-sharp major (10 sharps) is nearly always written as B-flat major (2 flats) is fine, except it really belongs in the B-flat major article. No? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 08:06, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]