B minor
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| Relative key | D major | |
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| Parallel key | B major | |
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| B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, A, B | ||
B minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, A and B. (natural minor scale - the harmonic minor scale contains a A# instead of a A). Its key signature consists of two sharps. In Germany and Scandinavia it is referred to as "h-moll".
Its relative major is D major, and its parallel major is B major.
Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary.
B minor is the relative minor of D major. B is an open string on standard tuning guitars, and on 5 string bass guitars.
In baroque times, B minor was regarded as the key of passive suffering.
It is a common key used in rock, folk, country and other guitaristic styles because the standard tuning of a guitar causes all the open strings to be scale degrees of B minor.
[edit] Well-known popular music in this key
- Building a Mystery - Sarah McLachlan
- Hitchin' a Ride - Green Day
- Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
- Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
- Hotel California - The Eagles
- Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
- Maneater - Daryl Hall & John Oates
- Pieces of Me - Ashlee Simpson
- Let's Get It Started - Black Eyed Peas
- What Time Is Love? - The KLF
- Union of the Snake - Duran Duran
- Yes Sir I Can Boogie - Baccara
- If You Had My Love - Jennifer Lopez
- Fresh - Kool & the Gang
- Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
- Money - Pink Floyd
- Hole In The Head - Sugababes
- In The Middle - Sugababes
- Dance, Dance - Fall Out Boy
- Down Under - Men at Work
- Red Right Hand - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- You Could Have Heard a Heart Break - Johnny Lee
- You Know My Name - Audioslave
[edit] Well-known classical compositions in this key
- Mass in B minor - J.S. Bach
- Unfinished Symphony - Franz Schubert
- Violin Concerto No. 2 'La Campanella' - Niccolò Paganini
- Concerto No. 2 for Double Bass and Orchestra - Giovanni Bottesini
- Piano Sonata in B Minor - Franz Liszt
- Symphony No. 2 - Alexander Borodin
- Cello Concerto - Antonín Dvořák
- Pathétique Symphony - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- In the Hall of the Mountain King - Edvard Grieg
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