B minor

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 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:
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. By the end of the Baroque era, however, conventional academic views of B minor had shifted: Composer-theorist Francesco Galeazzi (1758–1819) 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".
Scale Degree Chords
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 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
Piano sonata, Op. 1
Johannes Brahms
Ballade (Intermezzo) Op. 10/3
Capriccio Op. 78/2
Rhapsody Op. 79/1
Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115
Intermezzo Op. 119/1
Alexander Borodin
Symphony No. 2
Sonata for cello and piano
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
Gaetano Donizetti
String Quartet No. 16
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
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
Fantasia for flute solo No. 3
Fantasia for violin solo No. 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 names and symbols (popular music)
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); .
External links
Musical keys
Minor scales