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Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs, Opus 39 (12 studies in the minor keys) is a set of twelve etudes in all the minor keys by French-Jewish composer Charles-Valentin Alkan. The set opens in A minor with Comme Le Vent and goes through the circle of fourths until ending on E minor with a theme and variations entitled Le Festin d’Ésope .
In the key of C major, these would be: D minor, E minor, F major, G major, A minor, and C minor. Despite being three sharps or flats away from the original key in the circle of fifths, parallel keys are also considered as closely related keys as the tonal center is the same, and this makes this key have an affinity with the original key.
Much of the classical guitar repertoire is in E minor, as this is a very natural key for the instrument. In standard tuning (E A D G B E), four of the instrument's six open (unfretted) strings are part of the tonic chord. The key of E minor is also popular in heavy metal music, as its tonic is the lowest note on a standard-tuned guitar.
These chords are all borrowed from the key of E minor. Similarly, in minor keys, chords from the parallel major may also be "borrowed". For example, in E minor, the diatonic chord built on the fourth scale degree is IVm, or A minor. However, in practice, many songs in E minor will use IV (A major), which is borrowed from the key of E major.
In music, chromatic mediants are "altered mediant and submediant chords." [1] A chromatic mediant relationship defined conservatively is a relationship between two sections and/or chords whose roots are related by a major third or minor third, and contain one common tone (thereby sharing the same quality, i.e. major or minor).
The usual parallel chord in a major key is a minor third below the root and the counter parallel is a major third above. In a minor key the intervals are reversed: the tonic parallel (e.g. Eb in Cm) is a minor third above, and the counter parallel (e.g. Ab in Cm) is a major third below.
In jazz music, on the other hand, such chords are extremely common, and in this setting the mystic chord can be viewed simply as a C 13 ♯ 11 chord with the fifth omitted. In the score to the right is an example of a Duke Ellington composition that uses a different voicing of this chord at the end of the second bar, played on E (E 13 ♯ 11 ).
No. 2 - Lento assai in A minor - "The Sea and the Seagulls" No. 3 - Allegro molto in F ♯ minor - "The Day of Wrath", a study targeting the weak fingers of the hand. No. 4 - Allegro assai in B minor - "Dying Birds", a fusion of a Hopak and a Gavotte which functions as a study on repeated notes. [3] [4] No. 5 - Appassionato in E ♭ minor, a ...