B-flat minor

Template:Short description Template:Template other B-flat minor is a minor scale based on [[B♭ (musical note)|BTemplate:Music]], consisting of the pitches BTemplate:Music, C, [[D♭ (musical note)|DTemplate:Music]], [[E♭ (musical note)|ETemplate:Music]], F, [[G♭ (musical note)|GTemplate:Music]], and [[A♭ (musical note)|ATemplate:Music]]. Its key signature has five flats. Its relative major is D-flat major and its parallel major is B-flat major. Its enharmonic equivalent, A-sharp minor, which would contain seven sharps, is not normally used.

The B-flat natural minor scale is:

Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary. The B-flat harmonic minor and melodic minor scales are:

Scale degree chords

The scale degree chords of B-flat minor are:

• Tonic – B-flat minor
• Supertonic – C diminished
• Mediant – D-flat major
• Subdominant – E-flat minor
• Dominant – F minor
• Submediant – G-flat major
• Subtonic – A-flat major

Characteristics

B-flat minor is traditionally a 'dark' key.

The old valveless horn was barely capable of playing in B-flat minor: the only example found in 18th-century music is a modulation that occurs in the first minuet of Franz Krommer's Concertino in D major, Op. 80.

Notable classical compositions

• Charles-Valentin Alkan
  • Prelude Op. 31, No. 12 (Le temps qui n'est plus)
  • Symphony for Solo Piano, 3rd movement: Menuet
• Samuel Barber
  • Adagio for Strings
• Frédéric Chopin
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 "Funeral March"
  • Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1
  • Scherzo No. 2
  • Prelude Op. 28, No. 16 "Hades"
  • Mazurka Op. 24, No. 4
• Franz Liszt
  • Transcendental Étude No. 12 (Chasse-neige) from Transcendental Études
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 36
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Symphony No. 13, Op. 113 ("Babi Yar")
  • String Quartet No. 13, Op. 138
• Richard Strauss
  • An Alpine Symphony begins and ends in B-flat minor.
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Marche slave
• William Walton
  • Symphony No. 1

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Circle of fifths

No. Flats Sharps Major minor Major minor 0 C a C a 1 F d G e 2 [[B-flat major|BTemplate:Music]] g D b 3 [[E-flat major|ETemplate:Music]] c A [[F-sharp minor|fTemplate:Music]] 4 [[A-flat major|ATemplate:Music]] f E [[C-sharp minor|cTemplate:Music]] 5 [[D-flat major|DTemplate:Music]] [[B-flat minor|bTemplate:Music]] B [[G-sharp minor|gTemplate:Music]] 6 [[G-flat major|GTemplate:Music]] [[E-flat minor|eTemplate:Music]] [[F-sharp major|FTemplate:Music]] [[D-sharp minor|dTemplate:Music]] 7 [[C-flat major|CTemplate:Music]] [[A-flat minor|aTemplate:Music]] [[C-sharp major|CTemplate:Music]] [[A-sharp minor|aTemplate:Music]] 8 [[F-flat major|FTemplate:Music]] [[d-flat minor|dTemplate:Music]] [[G-sharp major|GTemplate:Music]] [[F minor#E-sharp minor|eTemplate:Music]]