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Minor key and scale based on the note F

F minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A , B , C, D , and E . Its key signature consists of four flats. Its relative major is A-flat major and its parallel major is F major.

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Its enharmonic equivalent, E-sharp minor, has six single sharps and the double sharp F, which makes it impractical to use.

The F natural low scale is

Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary.

The F harmonic minor and melodic minor scales are

Scale degree chords

The scale degree chords of F minor are:

Music in F minor

Famous pieces in the key of F trivial include Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata, Chopin's Piano Concerto No.

2, Ballade No. 4, Haydn's Symphony No. 49, La Passione and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.

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."^[1]

Hermann von Helmholtz once described F minor as harrowing and melancholy.

Christian Schubart described this key as "Deep depression, funereal lament, groans of misery and longing for the grave".^[2]

Notable compositions

See also: List of symphonies in F minor

E-sharp minor

E-sharp minor is a theoretical key based on the musical noteE, consisting of the pitches E♯, F, G♯, A♯, B♯, C♯ and D♯.

Its key signature has eight sharps, requiring one double acute and six single sharps.

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Its relative major is G-sharp major, which is usually replaced by A-flat major. Its parallel major, E-sharp major, is usually replaced by F major, as E-sharp major’s four double-sharps make it impractical to use.

Because of that enharmonic relationship, it is usually noted as the enharmonic low of F minor whose key signature has four flats.

The E-sharp natural minor scale is:

Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary.

The E-sharp harmonic minor and melodic low scales are:

Although E-sharp small is usually notated as F minor, it could be used on a local level, such as bars 17 to 22 in Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Prelude and Fugue No.

3 in C-sharp major. (E-sharp minor is the mediant minor key of C-sharp major.)

The scale-degree chords of E-sharp minor are:

See also

Notes

External links

• Media related to F minor at Wikimedia Commons