Green Day’s beautiful “21 Guns” plays on that line between D minor and F major, but does burn with that yearning tone of D minor.īut the fullest crystallization of the saddest key’s ongoing legacy of sorrow are two of the most famous and beloved classical compositions known to man. Among the nighthawks at the Emma’s 49er diner, drinking coffee “too weak to defend itself,” is that deep gloom of isolation in the dark American night. Tom Wait’s classic “Eggs and Sausage” is quintessentially a D minor song, all laced with the intrinsic sorrow of urbanity. Other standards, but of the next generation, are in D minor, including The Beatles “Come Together,” by John Lennon, “Black Magic Woman” by Santana, “Layla” by Eric Clapton and “Another Brick In The Wall” by Pink Floyd. Both Ahbez’s own record of it and Cole’s are in D minor. These songs include “Nature Boy,” by Eden Ahbez, first recorded and popularized by Nat King Cole. Some which are truly blue, while others have a poignant tone, but are not sorrowful. There are also many famous songs in D minor. It is the key, he wrote “of brooding despair, of blackest depresssion, of the most gloomy condition of the soul.” In his Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst of 1806, he shares his descriptions of each major and minor key.ĭ minor, wrote Schubart, is a key of “melancholy womanliness, the spleen and humours brood.” He actually found D#minor to be sadder.
In Germany, Christian Schubart wrote many books on music. In the late 18th and early 19th century, it was the subject of much popular analysis and debate. The exploration of the unique characterisics of musical keys has gone on for centuries. Well, this piece is called “Lick My Love Pump.” You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like – I’m really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it’s sort of in between those, really. eople weep instantly when they hear it, and I don’t know why. It’s part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I’m working on in D minor, Which is the saddest of all keys, I find.
Marty DiBergi: It’s a bit of a departure from what you normally play. Here in this famous exchange with his manager, Marty DiBergi, is one of the greatest ever cinematic homages to a musical key: When we turn to the scholars over the centuries and ending in this one, among many musicologists, composers, songwriters, there is an ever-expanding consensus that D minor leads all others in its evocation of melancholy.Įven some famous fictional rock stars, such as Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel, have spoken about the essential sorrow baked into the core of D minor.
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