Why is there no such thing as a B sharp or E sharp?

Answer 1

B# and Cb are used in music, just not very much. Most keys do not use either notes, but some do, and they can be used as accidentals. In this way they are similar to double-sharps and double-flats.

Answer 2

Because C follows it directly afterwards, and there is no black key above it, only one before it. On the piano, the keys go A, A sharp/ B flat, B, C, C sharp.

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There is a B sharp. It sounds just like C natural. Theoretically, you could write in the key of B sharp, which has 12 sharps. Several of the notes in this 'key' are double-sharps, which accounts for the high total. [C double-sharp will sound just like D natural.] Of course, no one would seriously write in this key, although it is real. There are various harmonic reasons why a composer may really write the note B sharp, though. Sharps simply raise a note by a half-step. There's really no mystery.

Regarding the piano, it is useful to keep in mind that 'keys' are the physical levers that you push to create a tone. 'Key' also refers to a set of notes in a special inter-relationship, as in 'the key of G Major'. Notes are abstract representations of pitch as they might be written in a musical score. Make something vibrate to create a tone, and you may be lucky or skillful enough to create a tone corresponding to the note on the score that you wish to reproduce! Maybe you will produce the tone by striking a piano key.

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B sharp is required in certain scenarios, such as when you need to raise the seventh degree in C-sharp minor to create the harmonic version of the scale, and the leading tone of the C-sharp major scale is B-sharp.

Answer 3

Actually, there is, just it's generally not regarded as a flat, more so a "regular" (natural) note. In the keys that have F flat and C flat (C flat major/a flat minor; G flat major/e flat minor), most people (or at least I do, for the most part) begin thinking of what notes aren't flat rather than what notes are flat.

Hope it helps! :)

Answer 4

There are B flat instruments because this is where the instrument is pitched. This is in relation to the spectrum of sound the instrument can produce.

Answer 5

B sharp does exist but sounds the same as C natural. Similarly, G sharp sounds the same as A flat.

Answer 6

They have the same pitch, but technically they're different notes.

Answer 7

it can be A# but is usually called Bb because how the scales are written

Answer 8

The notes B sharp and E sharp would be redundant. They would be the same note as C and F respectively.