F minor

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F minor
Image:A-flat_Major_key_signature.png
Relative key A major
Parallel key F major
Component pitches
F, G, A, B, C, D, E, F
Also see: F major, or F-sharp minor.

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 (see below: Scales and keys).

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

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F minor is a key often associated with passion. 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."

[edit] Well-known classical compositions in this key

See also: List of symphonies in F minor

[edit] Well-known popular songs in this key

[edit] Scales and keys

[edit] Notes


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