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C minor

Index C minor

C minor is a minor scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, flat, F, G, flat, and flat. [1]

70 relations: A♭ (musical note), Anton Bruckner, Étude Op. 10, No. 12 (Chopin), Baroque music, B♭ (musical note), Beethoven and C minor, C (musical note), C major, Camille Saint-Saëns, Cello Suites (Bach), Charles-Valentin Alkan, Choral Fantasy (Beethoven), Chord (music), Chord names and symbols (popular music), D (musical note), Dmitri Shostakovich, E-flat major, E♭ (musical note), F (musical note), F minor, Felix Mendelssohn, Flat (music), Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, G (musical note), G minor, Great Mass in C minor, K. 427, Gustav Mahler, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Joseph Haydn, Key (music), Key signature, Ludwig van Beethoven, Major and minor, Mazurkas, Op. 56 (Chopin), Minor scale, Nocturnes, Op. 48 (Chopin), Parallel key, Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582, Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff), Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart), Piano Concerto No. 3 (Beethoven), Piano Quartet No. 3 (Brahms), Piano Sonata No. 1 (Chopin), Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven), Piano Trio No. 3 (Brahms), Preludes (Chopin), Preludes, Op. 31 (Alkan), ..., Relative key, Rondo in C minor (Chopin), Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, String Quartet No. 8 (Shostakovich), Symphony No. 1 (Brahms), Symphony No. 1 (Bruckner), Symphony No. 1 (Mendelssohn), Symphony No. 2 (Bruckner), Symphony No. 2 (Mahler), Symphony No. 3 (Prokofiev), Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich), Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven), Symphony No. 8 (Bruckner), Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich), The Musical Offering, Transcendental Étude No. 8 (Liszt), Two String Quartets, Op. 51 (Brahms), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Expand index (20 more) »

A♭ (musical note)

A (A-flat; also called la bémol) is the ninth semitone of the solfège.

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Anton Bruckner

Josef Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets.

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Étude Op. 10, No. 12 (Chopin)

Étude Op. 10, No. 12 in C minor, known as the "Revolutionary Étude" or the "Étude on the Bombardment of Warsaw", is a solo piano work by Frédéric Chopin written circa 1831, and the last in his first set, Etudes, Op. 10, dedicated "à son ami Franz Liszt" ("to his friend Franz Liszt").

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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B♭ (musical note)

B (B-flat; also called si bémol) is the eleventh step of the Western chromatic scale (starting from C).

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Beethoven and C minor

In the compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven, the key of C minor is commonly regarded as significant: works for which he chose this key are felt to be powerful and emotionally stormy.

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C (musical note)

C (Do, Do, C) is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (F, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz.

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C major

C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on C, with the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common key signatures used in western music.

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.

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Cello Suites (Bach)

The six Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012, are suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Charles-Valentin Alkan

Charles-Valentin Alkan (30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French-Jewish composer and virtuoso pianist.

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Choral Fantasy (Beethoven)

The Fantasy (Fantasia) for piano, vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra,, usually called the Choral Fantasy, was composed in 1808 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

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Chord (music)

A chord, in music, is any harmonic set of pitches consisting of two or more (usually three or more) notes (also called "pitches") that are heard as if sounding simultaneously.

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Chord names and symbols (popular music)

Musicians use various kinds of chord names and symbols in different contexts, to represent musical chords.

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D (musical note)

D is a musical note a whole tone above C, and is known as Re within the fixed-Do solfege system.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич|Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich,; 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist.

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E-flat major

E-flat major (or the key of E-flat) is a major scale based on flat, with the pitches flat, F, G, flat, flat, C, and D. Its key signature has three flats: B, E, and A. Its relative minor is C minor, while its parallel minor is flat minor (or enharmonically sharp minor).

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E♭ (musical note)

E (E-flat) or mi bémol is the fourth semitone of the solfège.

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F (musical note)

F is a musical note, the fourth above C. It is also known as fa in fixed-do solfège.

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F minor

F minor is a minor scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, flat, flat, C, flat, and flat.

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period.

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Flat (music)

In music, flat or bemolle (Italian: "soft B") means "lower in pitch".

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Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc;Liszt's Hungarian passport spelt his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a Ritter (knight) by Emperor Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt. 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era.

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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano.

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G (musical note)

Sol, so, or G is the fifth note of the fixed-do solfège starting on C. As such it is the dominant, a perfect fifth above C or perfect fourth below C. When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of middle G (G4) note is approximately 391.995 Hz.

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G minor

G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, flat, C, D, Eflat, and F. Its key signature has two flats.

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Great Mass in C minor, K. 427

Great Mass in C minor (Große Messe in c-Moll), K. 427/417a, is the common name of the last musical setting of the mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (not counting his Requiem Mass left unfinished at his death).

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period.

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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.

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Key (music)

In music theory, the key of a piece is the group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a music composition in classical, Western art, and Western pop music.

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Key signature

In musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp, flat, and rarely, natural symbols placed together on the staff.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Major and minor

In Western music, the adjectives major and minor can describe a musical composition, movement, section, scale, key, chord, or interval.

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Mazurkas, Op. 56 (Chopin)

The Op. 56 mazurkas by Frédéric Chopin are a set of three mazurkas presumably written 1843–1844 and published in 1844.

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Minor scale

In music theory, the term minor scale refers to three scale formations – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending) – rather than just one as with the major scale.

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Nocturnes, Op. 48 (Chopin)

The Nocturnes, Op.

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Parallel key

In music, a major scale and a minor scale that have the same tonic are called parallel keys and are said to be in a parallel relationship.

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Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (BWV 582) is an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Concerto No. 3 (Beethoven)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Quartet No. 3 (Brahms)

The Piano Quartet No.

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Piano Sonata No. 1 (Chopin)

The Piano Sonata No.

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Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven)

The Piano Sonata No.

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Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.

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Piano Trio No. 3 (Brahms)

The Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101, by Johannes Brahms is scored for piano, violin and cello, and was written in the summer of 1886 while Brahms was on vacation in Hofstetten, Switzerland.

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Preludes (Chopin)

Frédéric Chopin wrote a number of preludes for piano solo.

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Preludes, Op. 31 (Alkan)

Charles-Valentin Alkan wrote 25 preludes for solo piano or organ in 1844; they were published as his Op. 31 in 1847.

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Relative key

In music, relative keys are the major and minor scales that have the same key signatures.

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Rondo in C minor (Chopin)

The Rondo in C minor, Op.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire.

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String Quartet No. 8 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No.

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Symphony No. 1 (Brahms)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 1 (Bruckner)

Anton Bruckner's Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 1 (Mendelssohn)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 2 (Bruckner)

Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)

Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 3 (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 8 (Bruckner)

Anton Bruckner's Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No.

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The Musical Offering

The Musical Offering (German title: Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer), BWV 1079, is a collection of keyboard canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (Frederick II of Prussia), to whom they are dedicated.

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Transcendental Étude No. 8 (Liszt)

Transcendental Étude No.

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Two String Quartets, Op. 51 (Brahms)

Johannes Brahms's String Quartet No. 1 in C minor and String Quartet No. 2 in A minor were completed in Tutzing, Bavaria, during the summer of 1873, and published together that autumn as Op. 51.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_minor

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