C MINOR

: ''Also see: C major, or C-sharp minor.''
'C minor' (abbreviated 'Cm') is a minor scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E-flat, F, G, A-flat, B-flat (often raised to B natural to function as a leading tone) and 'C'. Its key signature consists of three flats (''see below:'' Scales and keys).



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In the Baroque period, music in C minor was usually written with a two-flat key signature, and some modern editions of that repertoire keep it that way.
Its relative key is E-flat major, and its parallel major is C major.
Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary.
Of the two piano concertos that Mozart wrote in a minor key, one of them is in C minor, No. 24, K. 491.
C minor has been associated with heroic struggle since Beethoven's time, with the quintessential work in the key being his Symphony No. 5; see Beethoven and C minor. The fact that Brahms's Symphony No. 1 is in C minor contributed to it being nicknamed "Beethoven's Tenth" (Beethoven's actual 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.
C minor is arguably the hardest chord to play in standard form on the guitar.

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Well-known classical compositions in this key

Well-known contemporary music in this key

Scales and keys

Notes

External links

Well-known classical compositions in this key

★ ''Cello Suite No. 5'' - Johann Sebastian Bach

★ ''Étude Op. 10, No. 12 ("Revolutionary Etude")'' - Frédéric Chopin

★ ''Mass in C minor ("The Great")'' - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

★ ''Piano Concerto No. 2'' - Sergei Rachmaninoff

★ ''Piano Concerto No. 24'' - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

★ ''Piano Sonata No. 8 ("Pathetique")'' - Ludwig Van Beethoven

★ ''Piano Sonata No. 32'' - Ludwig Van Beethoven

★ ''String Quartet No. 8'' - Dmitri Shostakovich

★ ''Symphony No. 1'' - Johannes Brahms

★ ''Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection")'' - Gustav Mahler

★ ''Symphony No. 3'' - Camille Saint-Saëns

★ ''Symphony No. 4'' - Dmitri Shostakovich

★ ''Symphony No. 4 ("Tragic")'' - Franz Schubert

★ ''Symphony No. 5'' - Ludwig Van Beethoven

★ ''Symphony No. 8'' - Anton Bruckner

★ ''Symphony No. 8'' - Dmitri Shostakovich

Well-known contemporary music in this key

★ ''All Along the Watchtower'' - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Originally recorded by Bob Dylan, covered by many others)

★ ''...Baby One More Time'' - Britney Spears

★ ''Beautiful Life'' - Ace of Base

★ ''Chim Chim Cher-ee'' - Sherman Brothers from Mary Poppins

★ ''Crazy'' - Gnarls Barkley

★ ''The Darkest Nights'' - As I Lay Dying

★ ''Desert Rose'' - Sting

★ ''Enjoy the Silence'' - Depeche Mode

★ ''A Fifth of Beethoven - Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band

★ ''Gangsta's Paradise'' - Coolio

★ ''A Girl Like You'' - Edwyn Collins

★ ''High Hopes'' - Pink Floyd

★ ''Larger than Life (Backstreet Boys song)'' - Backstreet Boys

★ ''Let's Get Loud'' - Jennifer Lopez

★ ''Lollipop (Candyman)'' - Aqua

★ ''Panic Attack'' - Dream Theater

★ ''Paranoid Android'' - Radiohead

★ ''Rock Lobster'' - The B-52's

★ ''Russians - Sting

★ ''(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty'' - KC and the Sunshine Band

★ ''Sharp Dressed Man'' - ZZ Top

★ ''Sorry - Madonna

★ ''Stop Me'' - The Smiths/Mark Ronson

★ ''Supernature'' - Cerrone

★ ''Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)'' - Eurythmics

★ ''That Lady'' - The Isley Brothers

★ ''That's the Way (I Like It)'' - K.C. and the Sunshine Band

★ ''The Bad Touch'' - Bloodhound Gang

★ ''Then the Morning Comes'' - Smash Mouth

★ ''Toxic'' - Britney Spears

Scales and keys

Notes

External links

★ C Minor - Free C Minor Scale music sheet with arpeggios and broken chords for piano with fingering marks.