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double sharp
noun
, Music.
- a symbol (× or ) that raises by two semitones the pitch of the following note.
- a note or tone marked or affected by such a symbol.
double sharp
noun
- music
- an accidental that raises the pitch of the following note by two semitones Usual symbol
- a note affected by this accidental
adjective
- immediately postpositive denoting a note of a given letter name raised in pitch by two semitones
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Example Sentences
Notice that you can't avoid double sharps or double flats by writing the note on a different space or line.
From Literature
The double sharp was felt by him to be unsatisfactory, and was sacrificed.
From Project Gutenberg
Not only all the natural or diatonic notes are regarded as belonging to a key, but also all the chromatics, the sharps and flats, and the double sharps and double flats.
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The double sharp is made either thus or *, the first form being at present the more common.
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Then there was the double sharp report of firearms, and nothing more.
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