A minor

A minor is a minor scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has no flats and no sharps. Its relative major is C major and its parallel major is A major.

The A natural minor scale is:



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





Scale degree chords
The scale-degree chords of A minor are:
 * Tonic – A minor
 * Supertonic – B diminished
 * Mediant – C major
 * Subdominant – D minor
 * Dominant – E minor
 * Submediant – F major
 * Subtonic – G major

Well-known compositions in A minor

 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * English Suite No. 2, BWV 807
 * Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003
 * Partita in A minor, BWV 1013
 * Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Violin Sonata No. 4, Op. 23
 * String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132
 * Bagatelle in A minor, "Für Elise"
 * Johannes Brahms
 * String Quartet No, 2, Op. 51/2
 * Double Concerto, Op. 102
 * Clarinet Trio, Op. 114
 * Max Bruch
 * Romance for violin and orchestra, Op. 42
 * Serenade for violin and orchestra, Op. 75
 * String quartet, Op. posth.
 * Frédéric Chopin
 * Étude Op. 10, No. 2
 * Étude Op. 25, No. 4
 * Étude Op. 25, No. 11, Winter Wind
 * Mazurka Op. 17, No. 4
 * Mazurka Op. 59, No. 1
 * Boléro, Op. 19
 * Prelude No. 2 in A minor, Op. 28/2
 * Waltz in A minor, Op. 34, B. 150
 * Antonín Dvořák
 * String Quintet No. 1, Op. 1
 * String Quartet No. 6, Op. 12
 * String Quartet No. 7, Op. 16
 * Violin Concerto, Op. 53
 * Gabriel Fauré
 * Barcarolle for piano No. 1, 9 and 10, Op. 26, 101 and 104/2
 * Alexander Glazunov
 * String quartet no. 4, Op. 64
 * Violin concerto, Op. 82
 * Edvard Grieg
 * Piano Concerto, Op. 16
 * Cello Sonata, Op. 36
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel
 * Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 85
 * Franz Liszt
 * Transcendental Étude No. 2, Fusées
 * Gustav Mahler
 * Symphony No. 6
 * Piano Quartet
 * Felix Mendelssohn
 * Symphony No. 3, Scottish
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Piano Sonata No. 8, K. 310
 * Rondo, K. 511
 * Niccolò Paganini
 * Caprice No. 24
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff
 * Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
 * Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
 * Symphony no. 3, Op. 44
 * Maurice Ravel
 * Piano Trio
 * Sonata for Violin and Cello
 * Camille Saint-Saëns
 * Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
 * Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33
 * Franz Schubert
 * Piano Sonata, D 537
 * Piano Sonata, D 784
 * String Quartet No. 13, D 804 Rosamunde
 * Piano Sonata, D 845
 * Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821
 * Clara Schumann
 * Piano Concerto, Op. 7
 * Robert Schumann
 * Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 105
 * Violin Sonata No. 3, WoO 27
 * Piano Concerto, Op. 54
 * Cello Concerto, Op. 129
 * Jean Sibelius
 * Symphony No. 4, Op. 63
 * Dmitri Shostakovich
 * Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 99
 * Georg Philipp Telemann
 * Fantasia for flute solo No. 2
 * Fantasia for violin solo No. 12
 * Ralph Vaughan Williams
 * Oboe Concerto
 * Giovanni Battista Viotti
 * Violin Concerto No. 22 in A minor, G. 97
 * Antonio Vivaldi
 * Concerto for violin, Op. 3/6 RV 356
 * Concerto for two violins, Op. 3/8 RV 522
 * Concerto for violin, Op. 4/4 RV 357
 * Concerto for violin, Op. 7/4 RV 354
 * Concerto for violin, Op. 9/5 RV 358
 * Concerto for two violins, RV 523