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B-flat minor is traditionally a 'dark' key. [1] The old valveless horn was barely capable of playing in B-flat minor: the only example found in 18th-century music is a modulation that occurs in the first minuet of Franz Krommer's Concertino in D major, Op. 80. [2]
B minor is a minor scale based on B, ... (1739–1791) regarded B minor as a key expressing a quiet acceptance of fate and very gentle complaint, ...
Use of key signature usual or unusual 15 equal temperament: 15-tet scale on C. ... The A melodic minor scale, ascending and descending, on A.
Since the natural minor scale is built on the 6th degree of the major scale, the tonic of the relative minor is a major sixth above the tonic of the major scale. For instance, B minor is the relative minor of D major because the note B is a major sixth above D. As a result, the key signatures of B minor and D major both have two sharps (F ...
For example, F major and D minor both have one flat in their key signature at B♭; therefore, D minor is the relative minor of F major, and conversely F major is the relative major of D minor. The tonic of the relative minor is the sixth scale degree of the major scale, while the tonic of the relative major is the third degree of the minor ...
Going counter-clockwise from C results in lowering the fourth scale degree with each successive key (starting on F requires a B ♭ to form a major scale). Each major key has a relative minor key that shares the same key signature. The relative minor is always a minor third lower than its relative major.
The scale degree chords of B-flat major are: Tonic – B-flat major; Supertonic – C minor; Mediant – D minor; Subdominant – E-flat major; Dominant – F major; Submediant – G minor; Leading-tone – A diminished
Harry Partch considers minor as, "the immutable faculty of ratios, which in turn represent an immutable faculty of the human ear." [3] The minor key and scale are also considered less justifiable than the major, with Paul Hindemith calling it a "clouding" of major, and Moritz Hauptmann calling it a "falsehood of the major". [3]