B minor

Template:Short description Template:Template other B minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, [[C♯ (musical note)|CTemplate:Music]], D, E, [[F♯ (musical note)|FTemplate:Music]], G, and A. Its key signature has two sharps. Its relative major is D major and its parallel major is B major.

The B natural minor scale is:

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

Template:Block indent Template:Block indent Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739–1791) regarded B minor as a key expressing a quiet acceptance of fate and very gentle complaint, something commentators find to be in line with Bach's use of the key in his St John Passion.Template:Sfn By the end of the Baroque era, however, conventional academic views of B minor had shifted: Composer-theorist Francesco Galeazzi (1758–1819)Template:Sfn opined that B minor was not suitable for music in good taste. Beethoven labelled a B-minor melodic idea in one of his sketchbooks as a "black key".Template:Sfn

Scale degree chords

The scale degree chords of B minor are:

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

Notable compositions in B minor

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Mass in B minor
  • Orchestral Suite No. 2, BWV 1067
  • Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544
  • French Suite No. 3, BWV 814
  • Partita for Violin No. 1, BWV 1002
  • Flute Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Bagatelle Op. 126/4
• Alban Berg
  • Piano sonata, Op. 1
• Johannes Brahms
  • Ballade (Intermezzo) Op. 10/3
  • Rhapsody Op. 79/1
  • Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115
  • Intermezzo Op. 119/1
• Alexander Borodin
  • Symphony No. 2
• Frédéric Chopin
  • Scherzo No. 1, Op. 20
  • Étude, Op. 25, No. 10
  • Prelude in B minor "Tolling Bells", Op. 28, No. 6
  • Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58
  • Mazurka Op. 30/2
  • Mazurka, Op. 33/4
  • Waltz, Op. 69, No. 2
• Antonín Dvořák
  • Cello Concerto, Op. 104
• Edward Elgar
  • Violin Concerto
• César Franck
  • Prélude, Choral et Fugue, FWV 21
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  • Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 89
• Franz Liszt
  • Piano Sonata, S. 178
  • Ballade No. 2, S. 171
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • String Symphony No. 10 in B minor, MWV N 10
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Adagio, K. 540
• Niccolò Paganini
  • Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 7
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Moments musicaux No. 3, Op. 16
  • Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10
  • Études-Tableaux No. 4 in B minor, Op. 39
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 61
• Domenico Scarlatti
  • 12 of his 555 piano sonatas: K 27, 87, 173, 197, 227, 293, 376, 377, 408, 409, 497, 498
• Franz Schubert
  • Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished), D. 759
  • Rondo in B minor for violin and piano, D. 895
• Alexander Scriabin
  • Fantaisie in B minor, Op. 28
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Pezzo capriccioso
  • Manfred Symphony
  • Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique), Op. 74
• Georg Philipp Telemann
  • 12 Fantasias for Solo Flute: Nos. 3 and 9
  • Sonata for two flutes or violins No. 5
• Antonio Vivaldi
  • Trio Sonata Op. 1/11
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 2/5
  • Concerto for violin Op. 3/10
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 5/4
  • Violin Concerto for four violins Op. 9/12

See also

• Key (music)
• Major and minor
• Chord (music)
• Chord notation

References

Notes

Sources

• See also Francesco Galeazzi, The Theoretical-Practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV; English translation, with introduction and commentary, by Deborah Burton and Gregory W. Harwood (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2012); Template:ISBN.

External links

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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]]