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1 Scale degree chords  





2 Notable compositions in B minor  





3 See also  





4 References  





5 External links  














B minor






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B minor
{ \magnifyStaff #3/2 \omit Score.TimeSignature \key b \minor s16 \clef F \key b \minor s^"" }
Relative keyD major
Parallel keyB major
Dominant keyF-sharp minor
SubdominantE minor
Component pitches
B, C, D, E, F, G, A

B minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, C, D, E, F, G, and A. Its key signature has two sharps. Its relative majorisD major and its parallel majorisB major.


The B natural minor scale is:

 {
\omit Score.TimeSignature \relative c' {
  \key b \minor \time 7/4 b^"B natural minor scale" cis d e fis g a b a g fis e d cis b2
  \clef F \key b \minor
} }

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:

 {
\omit Score.TimeSignature \relative c' {
  \key b \minor \time 7/4 b^"B harmonic minor scale" cis d e fis g ais b ais g fis e d cis b2
} }
 {
\omit Score.TimeSignature \relative c' {
  \key b \minor \time 7/4 b^"B melodic minor scale (ascending and descending)" cis d e fis gis ais b a? g? fis e d cis b2
} }

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.[1] By the end of the Baroque era, however, conventional academic views of B minor had shifted: Composer-theorist Francesco Galeazzi (1758–1819)[2] 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".[3]

Scale degree chords

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Notable compositions in B minor

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  • Orchestral Suite No. 2, BWV 1067
  • Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544
  • French Suite No. 3, BWV 814
  • Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002
  • Flute Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Bagatelle Op. 126/4
    • Allegretto WoO 61 for piano
  • Charles Auguste de Bériot
    • Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 32
  • Alban Berg
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Alexander Borodin
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    • String Quartet No. 16
  • Antonín Dvořák
  • Edward Elgar
  • César Franck
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  • Jan Kalivoda
    • Symphony No. 5, Op. 106
  • Franz Liszt
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Niccolò Paganini
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Domenico Scarlatti
    • 12 of his 555 piano sonatas: K 27, 87, 173, 197, 227, 293, 376, 377, 408, 409, 497, 498
  • Franz Schubert
  • Alexander Scriabin
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Antonio Vivaldi
  • See also

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    References

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    Notes

    1. ^ Tusa 1993, pp. 2–3, n. 5.
  • ^ Galeazzi 1817, p. [page needed].
  • ^ Tusa 1993, p. 2, n. 3.
  • Sources

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