# E minor

E minor is a minor scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F♯, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has one sharp, on the F. Its relative major is G major and its parallel major is E major.
The E natural minor scale is:
Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary. The E harmonic minor and melodic minor scales are:
Much of the classical guitar repertoire is in E minor, as this is a very natural key for the instrument. In standard tuning (E A D G B E), four of the instrument's six open (unfretted) strings are part of the tonic chord. The key of E minor is also popular in heavy metal music, as its tonic is the lowest note on a standard-tuned guitar.

## Scale degree chords

The scale degree chords of E minor are:
* Tonic – E minor
* Supertonic – F-sharp diminished
* Mediant – G major
* Subdominant – A minor
* Dominant – B minor
* Submediant – C major
* Subtonic – D major

## Notable compositions

* Charles-Valentin Alkan
** Le festin d'Ésope, Op. 39, No. 12, from 12 etudes in all the minor keys
* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548
** English Suite No. 5, BWV 810
** Partita for keyboard in E minor, BWV 830
** Suite in E minor for solo lute, BWV 996
** Bourrée in E minor, BWV 996
* Ludwig van Beethoven
** String Quartet No. 8
** Piano Sonata No. 27
* Johannes Brahms
** Symphony No. 4
** Cello Sonata No. 1
** Fantasies, Op. 116 (5th movement)
** Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 119 (2nd movement)
* Frédéric Chopin
** Nocturne in E minor
** Piano Concerto No. 1
** Waltz in E minor
** Étude Op. 25, No. 5 "Wrong Note"
** Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 "Suffocation"
* Franz Danzi
** Horn Sonata Op. 44
* Gaetano Donizetti
** String Quartet No. 18
* Antonín Dvořák
** Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)
** Piano Trio Op. 90
** String Quartet No. 4
** Slavonic Dance No. 2, Op. 46
** Slavonic Dance No. 2, Op. 72
* Edward Elgar
** Cello Concerto
** Sea Pictures
** Serenade for Strings
** String Quartet
** Violin Sonata
* Louise Farrenc
** Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 45
* Edvard Grieg
** Piano Sonata
* George Frideric Handel
** Messiah (overture)
* Joseph Haydn
** Symphony No. 44 (Trauer)
* Ignaz Holzbauer
** Flute Concerto in E minor
* Margaret Ruthven Lang
** Rhapsody in E minor, Op. 24
* Karol Lipiński
** Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 24
* Franz Liszt
** Malédiction, S. 121
* Felix Mendelssohn
** Preludes and Fugues, Op. 35 (first pair)
** Violin Concerto
** String Symphony No. 3 in E minor, MWV N 3
** String Quartet in E minor, Op. 44
** Fugue in E minor, MWV W24
** Albumblatt, Op. 117
* Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
** Rondo for Flute and Piano
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
** Violin Sonata No. 21
** Die Alte, K. 517
* Pietro Nardini
** Sonata No. 6 for two violins and bass
* Niccolò Paganini
** Caprice No. 3
** Caprice No. 15
* Sergei Prokofiev
** Montagues and Capulets
* Franz Schubert
** Piano Sonata in E minor, D. 566
** Piano Sonata in E minor, D. 769A
** Fugue in E minor for four hands, D. 952
* Dmitri Shostakovich
** Piano Trio No. 2
** Symphony No. 10
* Jean Sibelius
** Symphony No. 1, Op. 39
* Bedřich Smetana
** Die Moldau
** String Quartet No. 1
* Sergei Rachmaninoff
** Moments musicaux, Op. 16, No. 4
** Symphony No. 2
** Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
* Maurice Ravel
** Le tombeau de Couperin
* Franz Xaver Richter
** Flute Concerto in E minor
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
** Scheherazade
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
** Symphony No. 5
* Ralph Vaughan Williams
** Symphony No. 6
** Symphony No. 9
* Giuseppe Verdi
** String Quartet
* Carl Maria von Weber
** Horn Concertino