sharps and flats
Example Sentences
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No one associated with the musical knows whether a show so right for pastry puns set to sharps and flats can be a hefty source of … dough.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
Sure, he’ll miss all the sharps and flats; If he were a movie, he’d be “Cats.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2021
He had set “The Naming of Cats” as an eerie, dreamy admixture of sharps and flats and had given “Macavity” an undertone of prowling lust.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019
But for a fast-growing number of youngsters from 6 to 18, the once dreaded struggle with sharps and flats is now as lively as a trip with the gang to the soda fountain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Triple, quadruple, etc. sharps and flats are rare, but follow the same pattern: every sharp or flat raises or lowers the pitch one more half step.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
