
A Picardy Third, this one pitched in D minor. Chorales use them almost always when a song is pitched in a minor key. |
"The Garment of Night, Surly, Blasphemous, Turning away the world and the divine. Preparations for the end. Pessimism and giving up. Belief in darkness."
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 |