C minor

American  

[see mahy-ner] / ˈsi ˈmaɪ nər /

noun

1. Music. the key that has C as the tonic or first note of its scale and is represented by a key signature having three flats.

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Example Sentences

Yet he had forced himself to participate in a performance of Brahms’s C minor Piano Quartet because the cellist, Robert Martin, a close colleague, was playing his final concert as director of the conservatory.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2021

It’s a masterpiece of minimalism, a chart-topping, gold-selling, Grammy-winning single based entirely around a single C minor chord.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2018

The concert concludes with Levit's chocolate-assisted rendition of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2017

This concert presents Schoenberg’s Second Chamber Symphony and Mozart’s Mass in C minor, two significant works which their composers walked away from.

From New York Times • May 12, 2016

Listen to the differences between the C seventh30 , C major seventh3l , C minor seventh32 , C diminished seventh33 , and C half-diminished seventh34 .

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones