B Diminished: B -D - F. This piece is in the key of either E major or C minor. This harmony would be normally a G minor having B instead of B , but due to its secondary dominant nature it will have its third sharpened. To further confuse things, the notes may only be enharmonic same pitch in equal temperament.
In some other temperament, they may be slightly different pitches. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What does this note - B - mean? Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 9 months ago. Active 4 months ago. Viewed 37k times.
Improve this question. Although there is no context given for this tiny snippet, it looks like this is in C minor and the harmony is a G 7 chord, which is the dominant in that key. We always spell any type of G triad with the letters GBD. When asking questions about unusual notation, you should always give the source as well as an image. This seems to be from Beethoven's sonata in c , so you should say so. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Tim Tim k 14 14 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.
The next most likely chord is the submediant, the third or which is a half step higher than the leading tone. It is in fact extremely unlikely for there not to be a C sharp following closely after this B sharp. In fact I only really see B sharp in the accompaniment in the first movement of that sonata, the melody uses C natural instead for the same note, at least in all the editions I've seen. Caters but this answer is about where the third of the dominant chord goes whether it was preceded by a B natural or not.
The tone keyboard had been standard for centuries by the time he wrote this piece. Whether or not his temperament was equal, it certainly did not admit different frequencies for enharmonically equivalent notes. The note is the same key as C. That's the gist of it.
SigTerm SigTerm 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Notes and keys are different things. This thing is kinda a big deal in classical music and music in era of romantic music Nothing here is specific to romantic music. BenCrowell "Notes and keys are different things. We aren't talking about math or programming here.
B instead of C indicates this is dominant chord in minor tonality according to rules of traditional harmony.
BenCrowell - you'll find it's the same piano key, that white one to the left of the two black ones In an English answer Cis-moll should read c sharp minor.
Community Bot 1. No, not really, because, as several commenters indicate, this B is not just a C. RosieF B maps to C on a piano. On other instruments that's not always true, but again we are just talking about piano. This answer states it's spelled that way for functional reasons which several other answers Also do. Dom is there any instrument where there are separate ways to play B sharp and C?
In my experience alternate fingerings are usually discussed in terms of which one is higher or lower, not which one belongs to which enharmonic spelling of a note. Besides, whether B sharp should be lower or higher than C depends on the tuning system and the context. Dom my point is, if I recall correctly, that players, including fretless string players, are not going to play the note at a given frequency because it's written as a C natural or B sharp but based on what sounds good.
Show 6 more comments. Could you tone down the misspellings here? I see what you're trying to do, and based on the voting, so do several other people, but we got some complaints as well. Not sure if the complainants thought you were trolling or just didn't get the intent or what, but it is sort of hard to read, and I think your point is made after a few instances. Your enharmonic spellings are delightfully disorienting — ex nihilo.
Instead, they write it as B because they want you to play actual C. Mirek Mirek 1 1 silver badge 8 8 bronze badges. I would just like to clarify a couple things that I don't think have been fully articulated. The word can also denote a tone played or sung at a specific pitch or for a specific duration, or both.
Some people prefer to define "note" and "pitch" more precisely as terms of art for the purpose of theoretical discussion, but it is not incorrect to use these words with their common senses. Laurence Payne Laurence Payne Neil Meyer Neil Meyer Don Don 31 1 1 bronze badge.
Does it mean it's a C? Is it possible? Indeed, and the way to sharpen a note is to raise it by an augmented unison. This leaves the letter part of its name unchanged; that part is still B. So the result of sharpening B is B. To write C instead of B would be to put it on the wrong degree of the scale.
This is incorrect. In any tone temperament, and in many temperaments with more tones, they can only be the same pitch. Is he not referring to temperaments with more than 12 tones? Though the clarification is important. Keyboards with more than 12 tones per octave were a relic of the distant past in Beethoven's day. And even rarer than a keyboard with split sharps is one with extra keys between B and C or between E and F.
B is a white key on the piano. Middle C midi note 60 is shown with an orange line under the 2nd note on the piano diagram. Every white or black key could have a flat b or sharp accidental name, depending on how that note is used. In a later step, if sharp or flat notes are used, the exact accidental names will be chosen. The audio files below play every note shown on the piano above, so middle C marked with an orange line at the bottom is the 2nd note heard.
The next note down from B is B. There are no black keys between B and B. B-sharp note The Solution below shows the position of note B-sharp on the piano, treble clef and bass clef. Solution 1. B-sharp note This step shows note B-sharp on two octaves, on the piano, treble clef and bass clef. Bass Clef. Treble Clef. Lesson steps 1.
Piano key note names This step shows the white and black note names on a piano keyboard so that the note names are familiar for later steps, and to show that the note names start repeating themselves after 12 notes. B-sharp note This step shows note B-sharp in two different positions on the piano, and describes the note characteristics. Note B-sharp is found in which scales?
This step shows which scales note B-sharp occurs in, including the scale degree ie. Related links bs B major scale. Minor scales B natural minor scale B harmonic minor scale B melodic minor scale. Circle of 5ths Learn the circle of fifths.
Scale triad chords B major triad chords B minor triad chords B harmonic minor chords B melodic minor chords. Scale 7th chords B major 7th chords B minor 7th chords B harmonic minor 7th chords B melodic minor 7th chords.
Cadences B major perfect authentic B major imperfect authentic B major plagal B major half B major deceptive. B-sharp is the leading tone of C major scale seventh note. B-sharp is the submediant of D major scale sixth note. B-sharp is the dominant of E major scale fifth note. B-sharp is the subdominant of F major scale fourth note.
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