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[[Image:C-sharp Major Scale.PNG |thumb|330px| Ascending and descending '''C-sharp major''' scale.]]

Although most composers prefer to use the enharmonic equivalent D-flat major because it has just five flats as opposed to the seven sharps of C-sharp major, [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] actually chose C sharp major for Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in both books of the ''[[Well-Tempered Clavier]]''. [[Béla Bartók]]'s [[String Quartet No. 3 (Bartók)|String Quartet No. 3]] is one of the few in C sharp major. In [[Hungarian Rhapsodies|Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6]], [[Franz Liszt]] actually changes key from D flat major to C sharp major near the beginning of the piece. [[Maurice Ravel]] selected C sharp major as the tonic key of ''Ondine'' from his piano suite ''[[Gaspard de la nuit]]''.

==Well-known contemporary music in this key==