B minor

American  

[bee mahy-ner] / ˈbi ˈmaɪ nər /

noun

1. Music. the key that has B as the tonic or first note of its scale and is represented by a key signature having two sharps.

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Example Sentences

I say, “Why don’t we have a G major instead of that B minor” or whatever.

From Los Angeles Times

To conduct Bach’s Mass in B minor, the conductor John Eliot Gardiner wrote, “is to be filled with a tremendous sense of anticipation.”

From New York Times

Liszt’s brooding transcription of Schubert’s song “Der Doppelgänger” emerges out of the shadowy ending of Liszt’s B minor Sonata, its grandeur and intimacy both captured here.

From New York Times

Then comes more B minor, with a tiny Berg “Klavierstück” as a sip of aperitif before his Opus 1 Sonata, lucid but never chilly.

From New York Times

Weilerstein joins him for the Dvořák Cello Concerto in B Minor, part of her schedule of roughly 80 performances each season.

From Seattle Times