A minor
Appearance
Relative key | C major |
---|---|
Parallel key | A major |
Dominant key | E minor |
Subdominant | D minor |
Component pitches | |
A, B, C, D, E, F, G |
A minor is a minor scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has no flats and no sharps. Its relative major is C major and its parallel major is A major.
The A natural minor scale is:
Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary. The A harmonic minor and melodic minor scales are:
Scale Degree Chords
- Tonic - A minor
- Supertonic - B diminished
- Mediant - C major
- Subdominant - D minor
- Dominant - E minor
- Submediant - F major
- Subtonic - G major
Well-known compositions in A minor
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- English Suite No. 2, BWV 807
- Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003
- Partita in A minor, BWV 1013
- Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Violin Sonata No. 4, Op. 23
- String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132
- Bagatelle in A minor, "Für Elise"
- Johannes Brahms
- String Quartet No, 2, Op. 51/2
- Double Concerto, Op. 102
- Clarinet Trio, Op. 114
- Max Bruch
- Frédéric Chopin
- Étude Op. 10, No. 2
- Étude Op. 25, No. 4
- Étude Op. 25, No. 11, Winter Wind
- Mazurka Op. 17, No. 4
- Mazurka Op. 59, No. 1
- Boléro, Op. 19
- Prelude No. 2 in A minor, Op. 28/2
- Waltz in A minor, Op. 34, B. 150
- Antonín Dvořák
- String Quintet No. 1, Op. 1
- String Quartet No. 6, Op. 12
- String Quartet No. 7, Op. 16
- Violin Concerto, Op. 53
- Gabriel Fauré
- Barcarolle for piano No. 1, 9 and 10, Op. 26, 101 and 104/2
- Alexander Glazunov
- String quartet no. 4, Op. 64
- Violin concerto, Op. 82
- Edvard Grieg
- Piano Concerto, Op. 16
- Cello Sonata, Op. 36
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 85
- Franz Liszt
- Gustav Mahler
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Symphony No. 3, Scottish
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Sonata No. 8, K. 310
- Rondo, K. 511
- Niccolò Paganini
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
- Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
- Symphony no. 3, Op. 44
- Maurice Ravel
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
- Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33
- Franz Schubert
- Clara Schumann
- Piano Concerto, Op. 7
- Robert Schumann
- Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 105
- Violin Sonata No. 3, WoO 27
- Piano Concerto, Op. 54
- Cello Concerto, Op. 129
- Jean Sibelius
- Symphony No. 4, Op. 63
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 99
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Fantasia for flute solo No. 2
- Fantasia for violin solo No. 12
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Giovanni Battista Viotti
- Violin Concerto No. 22 in A minor, G. 97
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Concerto for violin, Op. 3/6 RV 356
- Concerto for two violins, Op. 3/8 RV 522
- Concerto for violin, Op. 4/4 RV 357
- Concerto for violin, Op. 7/4 RV 354
- Concerto for violin, Op. 9/5 RV 358
- Concerto for two violins, RV 523
External links
- Media related to A minor at Wikimedia Commons