Glenn Gould once said if he could be any key, he would be F minor, because "it's rather dour, halfway between complex and stable, between upright and lascivious, between gray and highly tinted...

"[1] Hermann von Helmholtz once described F minor as harrowing and melancholy.

Christian Schubart described this key as "Deep depression, funereal lament, groans of misery and longing for the grave".

[2] E-sharp minor is a theoretical key based on the musical note E♯, consisting of the pitches E♯, F, G♯, A♯, B♯, C♯ and D♯.

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