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double sharp

In music, an accidental, ×, raising the note before which it stands by a whole tone.



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Successful performance of this work requires a moderate to advanced sense of lyrical line, fluid mastery of third octave fingerings and a working knowledge of accidentals, including double sharps (x).
changes of individual notes and sometimes whole passages from double flat or double sharp to simpler notated form (obviously sounding exactly the same).
There is a double sharp in the first flute part at measure 19; intermediate flutists may not have encountered this before.
 
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