B minor

B minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, C, D, E, F, G, and A. Its key signature consists of two sharps. Its relative major is D major and its parallel major is B major.
The B natural minor scale is:
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c' {
 \clef treble \key b \minor \time 7/4 b4^\markup "B natural minor scale" cis d e fis g a b a g fis e d cis b2
 \clef bass \key b \minor
</score>
Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary. The B harmonic minor and melodic minor scales are:
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c' {
 \clef treble \key b \minor \time 7/4 b4^\markup "B harmonic minor scale" cis d e fis g ais b ais g fis e d cis b2
</score>
\override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f
\relative c' {
 \clef treble \key b \minor \time 7/4
 b4^\markup "B melodic minor scale (ascending and descending)" cis d e fis gis ais b a! g! fis e d cis b2
</score>
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739–1791) regarded B minor as a key expressing a quiet acceptance of fate and very gentle complaint, something commentators find to be in line with Bach's use of the key in his "St John Passion". By the end of the Baroque era, however, conventional academic views of B minor had shifted: Composer-theorist Francesco Galeazzi (1758–1819) opined that B minor was not suitable for music in good taste. Beethoven labelled a B-minor melodic idea in one of his sketchbooks as a "black key".
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