Bass 269 — The ♯ that demands a natural
F minorThe ♯ in a deep flat key: it means "a semitone up from the key," so over this dominant it demands E natural — a sharp figure whose product carries no sharp at all.
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Stage 10 of 17
What does a lone ♯, ♭ or ♮ mean?
An accidental standing alone alters the third above the bass. Six exercises on the three signs — including the ♯ in a deep flat key whose product carries no sharp at all.
The ♯ in a deep flat key: it means "a semitone up from the key," so over this dominant it demands E natural — a sharp figure whose product carries no sharp at all.
The 4–♯ pair over the dominant: the suspended fourth falls one semitone, and what it lands on is whatever tone the ♯ demands — here B natural, three flats notwithstanding.
The bare ♭: a semitone down from the key. Over the subdominant after the close it borrows the minor iv — the Picardy third’s mirror image.
The subdominant melting from major to minor over a held bass: one voice inflects E to E♭ under the bare ♭, then falls its half step onto the dominant.
The ♮ as the flat-key hand writes a raised third: it strikes the key’s flat off the letter, and the soprano climbs to the tonic in whole and half steps.
The two hands side by side in one climb: a ♮ cancels the key’s E♭, a ♯ lifts B♭ to B♮ — different signs, the same grammar, one rising line.