F minor

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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? major and its parallel major is F major.

The F natural minor 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:

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Music in F minor

Three famous pieces in the key of F minor are Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata, Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Haydn's Symphony No. 49, La Passione.

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."

Helmholtz once described F minor as harrowing and melancholy. Schubart described this key as "Deep depression, funereal lament, groans of misery and longing for the grave".

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E? minor

E? minor is a theoretical key based on the musical note E? and consisting of the pitches E?, F, G?, A?, B?, C? and D?. Its key signature has six sharps and one double sharp (or eight sharps).

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:

Its relative major is G? major, which is usually replaced by A? major. Its parallel major, E? major, is usually replaced by F major, due to the presence of 4 double-sharps in the E? major scale causing it to be one of the more impractical key signatures in music to use. Although E? minor is usually notated as F minor, it could be used on a local level, such as a brief passage in Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C? major. (E? minor is the mediant minor key of C? major.)

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See also

• Key (music)
• Major and minor
• Chord (music)
• Chord names and symbols (popular music)

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Notes

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External links

• Media related to F minor at Wikimedia Commons

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