sharps and flats
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No one associated with the musical knows whether a show so right for pastry puns set to sharps and flats can be a hefty source of … dough.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023
He had set “The Naming of Cats” as an eerie, dreamy admixture of sharps and flats and had given “Macavity” an undertone of prowling lust.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019
The clunker notes I hit, the sharps and flats, are fixed.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2015
It has a music without sharps and flats.
From Time Magazine Archive
Triple, quadruple, etc. sharps and flats are rare, but follow the same pattern: every sharp or flat raises or lowers the pitch one more half step.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
