G-sharp minor

G-sharp minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. Its key signature has five sharps.
The G-sharp natural minor scale is:
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c" {
 \clef treble \key gis \minor \time 7/4 gis4^\markup "Natural minor scale" ais b cis dis e fis gis fis e dis cis b ais gis2
 \clef bass \key gis \minor
</score>
Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary. The G-sharp harmonic minor and melodic minor scales are:
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c" {
 \clef treble \key gis \minor \time 7/4
 gis4^\markup "Harmonic minor scale" ais b cis dis e fisis gis fisis e dis cis b ais gis2
</score>
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c" {
 \clef treble \key gis \minor \time 7/4
 gis4^\markup "Melodic minor scale (ascending and descending)" ais b cis dis eis fisis gis fis! e! dis cis b ais gis2
</score>
Its relative major is B major. Its parallel major, G-sharp major, is usually replaced by its enharmonic equivalent of A-flat major, since G-sharp major features an F in the key signature, making it impractical to use. A-flat minor, its enharmonic, with seven flats, has a similar problem, thus G-sharp minor is often used as the parallel minor for A-flat major. (The same enharmonic situation occurs with the keys of D-flat major and C-sharp minor).
Music in G-sharp minor.
Despite the key rarely being used in orchestral music other than to modulate, it is not entirely uncommon in keyboard music, as in Piano Sonata No. 2 by Alexander Scriabin, who actually seemed to prefer writing in it. It is also found in the second movement in Shostakovich's 8th String quartet. If G-sharp minor is used, composers generally write B wind instruments in the enharmonic B-flat minor, rather than A-sharp minor to facilitate reading the music (or A instruments used instead, giving a transposed key of B minor).
Few symphonies are written in G-sharp minor; among them are Nikolai Myaskovsky's 17th Symphony, Elliot Goldenthal's Symphony in G-sharp minor (2014) and an abandoned work of juvenilia by Marc Blitzstein.
Frédéric Chopin composed a Polonaise in G-sharp minor, Op. posth., in 1822. His Étude No. 6 and his 12th prelude from the 24 Preludes, Op. 28, are in G-sharp minor as well.
Modest Mussorgsky wrote the movements, "The Old Castle" and "Bydło" (Cattle), from "Pictures at an Exhibition" in G-sharp minor.
Liszt's "La campanella" from his "Grandes études de Paganini" is in G-sharp minor.
Alexander Scriabin's second piano sonata "Sonata-Fantasy", Op. 19, is in G-sharp minor.
Sibelius wrote the slow movement of his Third Symphony in G-sharp minor.