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F minor

F minor
A-flat-major f-minor.svg
Relative key A major
Parallel key F major
Dominant key C minor
Subdominant B minor
Component pitches
F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F
E minor
G-sharp-major e-sharp-minor.png
Relative key G major
enharmonic: A major
Parallel key E major
enharmonic: F major
Dominant key B minor
enharmonic: C minor
Subdominant A minor
enharmonic: B minor
Enharmonic F minor
Component pitches
E, Fdouble sharp, G, A, B, C, D, E

F minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A, B, C, D, and E. The harmonic minor raises the E to E. Its key signature has four flats.

Its relative major is A-flat major, and its parallel major is F major.

Two famous pieces in the key of F minor are Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata, and Haydn's Symphony No. 49 in F minor, 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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