The B natural minor scale is: Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with accidentals as necessary.

The B harmonic minor and melodic minor scales are: Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1739–1791) regarded B minor as a key expressing a quiet acceptance of fate and very gentle complaint, something commentators find to be in line with Bach's use of the key in his St John Passion.

[1] By the end of the Baroque era, however, conventional academic views of B minor had shifted: Composer-theorist Francesco Galeazzi (1758–1819)[2] opined that B minor was not suitable for music in good taste.

Beethoven labelled a B-minor melodic idea in one of his sketchbooks as a "black key".

[3] The scale degree chords of B minor are: Notes Sources