Welcome folks to the third instalment of the signature series and today’s key is B minor. Embedding sucks, so you have to go the CBC website and listen for yourself. :) The music and the play by play commentary make for an entertaining listening experience.
B minor: The Dark Romantic
Also known as:
The Gloomy Gus.
The Pessimist.
B minors you might know:
Werther from Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby.
Cliff Barnes from Dallas.
The notes: B – C♯ – D – E – F♯ – G – A♯ – B.
Number of sharps: two.
Relative major: D major.
What they said about B minor in the 18th and 19th centuries:
“Banished from music of good taste.” – Francesco Galeazzi, 1796
“Bitter, gloomy lamentation, on account of hard suffering … in these tones the shocked soul looks around exhausted and almost without hope.” – J. A. Schrader, 1827
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Mystro
The Arbourist
Dead Wild Roses 
1 comment
October 15, 2012 at 1:04 am
Paolo Pietropaolo
Hey there,
I think it’s great that you are enjoying the Signature Series and sharing it – thanks!!
However it would be also great to get a credit here. You’ve copied and pasted the above text from the Signature Series website, where I wrote it, and there’s no indication here currently that you didn’t write it yourself.
A link is great, but I’d appreciate a credit here. Thanks. :)
(I’d have emailed you privately but I couldn’t find a contact email anywhere on the blog.)
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