More common is notation in E-flat minor, which is a relatively manageable key for many brass instruments and woodwinds.

In the 24 canonic keys, most of the composers preferred E-flat minor, while Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Lyapunov, and Manuel Ponce preferred D-sharp minor.

The second of Lyapunov's 12 Transcendental Études ("Ronde des Fantômes") is also in D-sharp minor.

In a few scores, 6-sharp key signatures in the bass clef are written with the sharp for the A on the top line.

Meanwhile, the E horns would have parts written with a B minor key signature.