Music notation with valid use of B## and E##
Can anyone show me a piece of repertoire that validly uses B## and E## notes?
I've had people tell me that of course they exist, but have never been able to give me an example; or they try to build a theoretical example using something like the key of A# major, rather than the much more simple Bb major.
This is just to prove to myself that a double-accidental is always a white note on the piano. :)
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Here is Scriabin's study op. 42, no. 5, bar 18, which includes an E-double-sharp...
I don't know about pieces using B## or E##, but I can give an example of a piece of piano music using Cbb: Godowsky's paraphrase on Strauss's "Die Fledermaus". In the section below,
there is a Cbb in the left hand in the third bar, which is a double-accidental and which is a black note on the piano (enharmonic to Bb).
F??maj13?11 consists of the notes F??-A??-C??-E??-G??-B??-D??
Enharmonic to Gmaj13?11.
Used in C?? major as a IV chord.
How to theoretically use this absolute mess of a chord: If you started a piece in D? minor, then modulated to E? minor, then to E? major, then went to C?? minor, then to C?? major, you could theoretically use this chord as the IV. Basically, thorugh a bunch of modulations, it's possible to get there. Or you could be smart and just write augmented chords in sharp keys.
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