G minor

[jee mahy-ner]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Langrée first conducted the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in 1998, in a program that included Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor.

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He was particularly adept at inflaming restrained French elegance with Italian intensity, as in the inexorably winding violin line of a G minor sonata’s prelude, exploding in arpeggios that lead to a fiery yet stylish gavotte.

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Janitsch’s spacious Sonata da Camera in G minor, altogether sweeter and less densely scored than the Bach, made room for Suzuki’s broad phrasing.

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After laying down the final G minor chord with touching delicacy, he immediately jumped into a piece in the same key, Robert Schumann’s Second Piano Sonata.

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But the most memorable of the program’s three instrumental pieces — a cello concerto in G minor — showcased Philippe, sweetly aching in a duetting passage with Dunford and ferocious, without losing airy suavity, in a very Vivaldian Allegro finale.

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