C minor
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| Relative key | E♭ major | |
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| Parallel key | C major | |
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| C, D, E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭, C | ||
C minor is a minor scale based on C. The harmonic minor raises the B♭ to B♮.Its key signature has three flats. When written in jazz notation, its short form is Cm.
Its relative major is E-flat major, and its parallel major is C major.
In the Baroque period, music in C minor was usually written with a two-flat key signature. When this music is printed today, sometimes it is still printed in the same way.
Mozart wrote two piano concertos in a minor key, and one of them is in C minor, No. 24, K. 491.
C minor has had the meaning of heroic struggle from Beethoven's time. One of the most famous pieces in this key is his Symphony No. 5. The fact that Brahms's Symphony No. 1 is also in C minor helped it get its nickname as "Beethoven's Tenth" (Beethoven's actual unfinished Symphony No. 10 in E flat major may have had a significant central C minor section in the first movement). Three of Anton Bruckner's ten numbered symphonies are in C minor.
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Well-known classical compositions in this key [change]
- Cello Suite No. 5 BWV 1011: VI. Gigue - Johann Sebastian Bach
- Great Mass in C minor (Mozart) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concerto No. 24 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concerto No. 3 - Ludwig van Beethoven
- Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven), op. 67 (1804-8)
- “Choral Fantasy” in C minor, op. 80 (1808), Beethoven
- Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor (Pathétique) - Ludwig van Beethoven
- Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven) - Ludwig van Beethoven
- Symphony No. 2 (Tchaikovsky) “Little Russian” in C minor, op. 17 (1872)
- Symphony No. 8 - Anton Bruckner
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor - Sergei Rachmaninov
- Étude Op. 10, No. 12 - Fryderyk Chopin
- Prélude No. 20, Op. 28 - Fryderyk Chopin
- Nocturne in C minor Op. 48, No.1 - Fryderyk Chopin
- Symphony No. 4 - Dmitri Shostakovich
- Symphony No. 8 - Dmitri Shostakovich
- Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor - Bach
- Symphony No. 2 - Gustav Mahler
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