Music notation glossary · Accidentals
Sharp
a semitone higher
As a Unicode character — to paste into text, spreadsheets or chat. Whether it appears depends on the font.
In the score
What it means
Raises the note by a semitone and applies until the end of the bar. When it stands after the clef at the start, it belongs to the key signature and applies to the whole piece.
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