C minor

[see mahy-ner]

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.

Example Sentences

As an encore for this unhackneyed recital, Malofeev turned Rachmaninoff’s ultra-hackneyed Prelude in C Minor into something so monumentally thunderous that it nearly overwhelmed all that had come before it.

From Los Angeles Times

When asked about that fluidly modulating chord progression, she grabs her guitar and plays, naming as she goes: “It’s G, D minor … C, C minor …” For the non-music heads out there, in pop music, in the key of G, C and D are the usual complimentary chords and are expected to be major; those switches to minor are what give the song its unusual quality.

From Los Angeles Times

Tao has selected Mozart’s Concerto in C minor, K. 491, as the anchor for his engagement with Seattle Symphony on March 1 — arguably the most existentially stirring of his groundbreaking piano concertos and a piece that holds particular fascination for Tao.

From Seattle Times

The 17th-century English composer Henry Purcell’s brief Fantasia for Strings displays a paradoxically “skeletal and very rich quality” that Tao also associates with the concerto, while Igor Stravinsky’s neoclassical “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto “speaks to the simultaneous elegance and surprise in the Mozart” — as well as to a self-consciously “ancient” aspect he discerns in the C minor concerto.

From Seattle Times

The track, which serves as the LP’s closer and its thematic anchor, is an eclecticist’s dream: absurdist trap, glossy vocal harmonies, and an interpolation of some Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op.

From Seattle Times