E minor

American  

[ee mahy-ner] / ˈi ˈmaɪ nər /

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.

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E minor

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

Yet it seems to have touched a strong chord — A, D and E minor, I’m told — with fans who poured into T-Mobile Park for the first weekend of home games, and beyond.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

And the selection that followed, a piano interlude — Brahms’s Intermezzo in E minor — felt a bit random, though Tao suspended time in freezing cascades of sound.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2021

On the cattle car en route to Auschwitz, she scribbled several bars from Bach’s English Suite No. 5 in E minor on a piece of paper.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017

Figure 6.31: Moving tune up to E minor puts it in a better key for sopranos.

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