Picardy Third - Music Theory Academy - Tierce de Picardie origins and use

A Picardy Third, this one pitched in D minor. Chorales use them almost always when a song is pitched in a minor key.

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Despite its parallel major's ubiquity, B♭ minor is one of the rarer keys in a musician's playbook, namely due to its complex key signature. Not much music uses the key, but when it is used, B♭ major usually follows in a "Picardy Third," the name for when a song pitched in a minor key ends in the parallel major