F minor - wikipedia F minor F minor Relative key A ♭ major Parallel key F major Dominant key C minor Subdominant B ♭ minor Component pitches F, G, A ♭, B ♭, C, D ♭, E ♭ F natural minor scale ascending and descending. Play ( help info ) F harmonic minor scale ascending and descending. Play ( help info ) F melodic minor scale ascending and descending. Play ( help info ) F minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A ♭, B ♭, C, D ♭, and E ♭. The harmonic minor raises the E ♭ to E ♮. Its key signature has four flats. Its relative major is A-flat major, and its parallel major is F major. Three famous pieces in the key of F minor are Beethoven 's Appassionata Sonata, Chopin 's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Haydn 's Symphony No. 49, La Passione. Glenn Gould once said if he could be any key, he would be F minor, because `` it 's rather dour, halfway between complex and stable, between upright and lascivious, between gray and highly tinted... There is a certain obliqueness. '' Helmholtz once described F minor as harrowing and melancholy. Schubart described this key as `` Deep depression, funereal lament, groans of misery and longing for the grave ''. Contents 1 Notable compositions 2 E-sharp minor 3 See also 4 Notes 5 External links Notable compositions See also : List of symphonies in F minor `` Winter '' from The Four Seasons ( RV 297 ) -- Antonio Vivaldi Piano Sonata No. 1 Op. 2 / 1 - Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23, Op. 57 ( Appassionata ) -- Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 11, Op. 95 `` Serioso '' -- Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 6 ( Mendelssohn ) Ballade No. 4, Op. 52 -- Frédéric Chopin Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49 -- Frédéric Chopin Fantasia in F minor -- Franz Schubert Impromptu in F minor, Op. 142 no. 1 -- Franz Schubert Harpsichord Concerto No. 5, BWV 1056 -- Johann Sebastian Bach `` Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ '', BWV 639 -- J.S. Bach Transcendental Étude No. 10 ( Liszt ) - Franz Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 -- Chopin Piano Quintet, Op. 34 -- Johannes Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 5 -- Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 - Tchaikovsky Mass No. 3 - Anton Bruckner String Quintet - Alexander Borodin L'apprenti sorcier -- Paul Dukas Symphony No. 1 - Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11, Op. 122 ( 1966 ), Dmitri Shostakovich E-sharp minor E ♯ minor Relative key G ♯ major enharmonic : A ♭ major Parallel key E ♯ major enharmonic : F major Dominant key B ♯ minor enharmonic : C minor Subdominant A ♯ minor enharmonic : B ♭ minor Enharmonic F minor Component pitches E ♯, F, G ♯, A ♯, B ♯, C ♯, D ♯ E-sharp minor is a theoretical key based on the musical note E-sharp ( E ♯ ) and consisting of the pitches E ♯, F, G ♯, A ♯, B ♯, C ♯ and D ♯. In the harmonic minor, the D ♯ is raised to D. Its key signature has six sharps and one double sharp. Its relative major is G ♯ major, usually replaced by A ♭ major, while its parallel major is E ♯ major, usually replaced by F major, due to the presence of 4 double - sharps in the E ♯ major scale causing it to be one of the more impractical key signatures in music to use. Although E ♯ minor is usually notated as F minor, it could be used on a local level, such as a brief passage in Johann Sebastian Bach 's The Well - Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C - sharp major. ( E ♯ minor is the mediant minor key of C ♯ major. ) See also Key ( music ) Major and minor Chord ( music ) Chord names and symbols ( popular music ) Notes Jump up ^ Cathering Meng, Tonight 's the Night ( Apostrophe Books, 2007 ) : 21 External links Media related to F minor at Wikimedia Commons Diatonic scales and keys Flats Sharps Major minor Major minor 0 d B ♭ g E ♭ f ♯ A ♭ f c ♯ 5 D ♭ b ♭ g ♯ 6 G ♭ e ♭ F ♯ d ♯ 7 C ♭ a ♭ C ♯ a ♯ 8 F ♭ d ♭ G ♯ e ♯ The table indicates the number of sharps or flats in each scale. Minor scales are written in lower case. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=F_minor&oldid=804474280 '' Categories : Musical keys Minor scales Compositions in F minor Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Català Deutsch Eesti Español Esperanto Français 한국어 Italiano Nederlands 日本 語 Polski Português Русский Simple English Српски / srpski Українська Tiếng Việt 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 9 October 2017, at 07 : 05. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: how many sharps or flats in f minor
Answer: four flats