E minor

 ( Musical Keys ) 

E minor is a minor scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has one sharp, on the F. Its relative key is G major and its parallel key is E major. "Notation" BBC Bitesize. Retrieved 2023-06-14.

The E natural minor scale is:

Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary. The E harmonic minor and melodic minor scales are:

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 (un) 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.

• Tonic – E minor
• Supertonic – Diminished triad
• Mediant – G major
• Subdominant – A minor
• Dominant – B minor
• Submediant – C major
• Subtonic – D major

• Charles-Valentin Alkan
• Le festin d'Ésope, Op. 39, No. 12, from 12 etudes in all the minor keys
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548
• English Suite No. 5, BWV 810
• Partita for keyboard in E minor, BWV 830
• Suite in E minor for solo lute, BWV 996
• Bourrée in E minor, BWV 996
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• String Quartet No. 8
• Piano Sonata No. 27
• Johannes Brahms
• Symphony No. 4
• Cello Sonata No. 1
• Fantasies, Op. 116 (5th movement)
• Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 119 (2nd movement)
• Frédéric Chopin
• Nocturne in E minor
• Piano Concerto No. 1
• Waltz in E minor
• Étude Op. 25, No. 5 "Wrong Note"
• Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 "Suffocation"
• Franz Danzi
• Horn Sonata Op. 44
• Gaetano Donizetti
• String Quartet No. 18
• Antonín Dvořák
• Symphony No. 9 ( From the New World) "Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World’ – Largo by Antonín Dvořák" BBC. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
• Piano Trio Op. 90
• String Quartet No. 4
• Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
• Slavonic Dances, Op. 72
• Edward Elgar
• Cello Concerto
• Sea Pictures
• Serenade for Strings
• String Quartet
• Violin Sonata
• Louise Farrenc
• Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 45
• Edvard Grieg
• Piano Sonata
• George Frideric Handel
• Messiah (overture)
• Joseph Haydn
• Symphony No. 44 ( Trauer)
• Ignaz Holzbauer
• Flute Concerto in E minor
• Margaret Ruthven Lang
• Rhapsody in E minor, Op. 24
• Feliks Janiewicz
• Violin concerto No. 5
• Karol Lipiński
• Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 24
• Franz Liszt
• Malédiction, S. 121
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Preludes and Fugues, Op. 35 (first pair)
• Violin Concerto
• String Symphony No. 3 in E minor, MWV N 3
• String Quartet in E minor, Op. 44
• Fugue in E minor, MWV W24
• Albumblatt, Op. 117
• Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
• Rondo for Flute and Piano
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Violin Sonata No. 21
• Die Alte, K. 517
• Pietro Nardini
• Sonata No. 6 for two violins and bass
• Niccolò Paganini
• Caprice No. 3
• Caprice No. 15
• Sergei Prokofiev
• Montagues and Capulets
• Ferdinand Ries
• Violin Concerto, Op. 24
• Franz Schubert
• Piano Sonata in E minor, D. 566
• Piano Sonata in E minor, D. 769A
• Fugue in E minor for four hands, D. 952
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Piano Trio No. 2
• Symphony No. 10
• Jean Sibelius
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 39
• Bedřich Smetana
• Die Moldau
• String Quartet No. 1
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Moments musicaux, Op. 16, No. 4
• Symphony No. 2
• Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
• Maurice Ravel
• Le tombeau de Couperin
• Franz Xaver Richter
• Flute Concerto in E minor
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Scheherazade
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Symphony No. 5
• Carl Maria von Weber
• Horn Concertino
• Piano Sonata No. 4 in E minor, Op. 70
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Symphony No. 6
• Symphony No. 9

• Giuseppe Verdi
• String Quartet
• Antonio Vivaldi
• Violin Concerto, Op. 11/2 RV 277

• Key (music)
• Major and minor
• Chord (music)
• Chord notation