Questions tagged [enharmonics]

I understand why notes within key signatures are denoted as sharps / flats but what drives the conventional naming of enharmomic notes, i.e a diminished seventh in C contains Ab and not G#. Why is it not the latter, given the key signature doesn’t…

Why is Erik Satie's Saraband 1 in A flat major? There are so many F, C, and G flat accidentals through out the score it seem like it could have been notated in G sharp minor (enharmonic of A flat minor) with the tonic G sharp minor altered to be…

As the title says. It seems that the really sharp keys (e.g. C#, F#, etc.) are really cumbersome to write and play in, so I was wondering if there were any advantages to them over keys like Db and Gb.