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
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
The clunker notes I hit, the sharps and flats, are fixed.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2015
But the ocarina has a full set of sharps and flats, confers upon its player a corresponding sense of superior achievement.
From Time Magazine Archive
When sharps and flats are used, remember that the alteration is always from the scale of the chord root, not from the key signature.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
