E minor

[ee mahy-ner]

noun

1. Music.,  the key that has E as the tonic or first note of its scale and is represented by a key signature having one sharp.

Example Sentences

“He wasn’t a musician. He couldn’t tell you, ‘I want an E minor here, and then I want to have eight bars of this,’” says Isaak, whose “Wicked Game” became a hit after appearing in 1990’s “Wild at Heart.”

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Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony in E Minor is not played too often, according to Ted Stern, conductor of the Glendale College Community Orchestra, which will play the piece for its final concert of the season on Sunday.

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Seven decades since her death, and nine since the groundbreaking premiere of her Symphony in E minor, her luminous music is enrapturing audiences worldwide.

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After catching a glimpse of a candidate for the cello section, Tár hopes to get close to her by selecting Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.

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Price, who became the first Black woman to have her music played by a major American orchestra in 1933 when the Chicago Symphony performed her Symphony in E Minor, has been enjoying a renaissance in recent years, along with other composers of color.

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