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minor key

NOUN
  1. a key based on the minor scale

How To Use minor key In A Sentence

  • There are some items in a more minor key. Times, Sunday Times
  • The piece is written in a minor key.
  • E [flat], d of F, etc., the small letter being used to refer to the minor key or scale, while the capital letter indicates the major key or scale unless accompanied by the word _minor_. Music Notation and Terminology
  • Described in the press notes as ‘a love story in a minor key,’ this will certainly strike a chord with fans of character drama.
  • This piece will give the teacher a chance to review parallel and relative major/minor keys along with primary chord progressions.
  • The music of commerce would thus be harmonious and evenly paced, its dynamics restrained; there would be no swelling crescendo of the Boom, no cacophonous accelerando to the climax and no minor key diminuendo thereafter into the Bust.
  • The premise is that the major key always prevails and all minor keys should be sung in terms of the relative major.
  • They are predominantly positive works; minor key episodes, when they occur, offer more harmonic contrast than emotional contrast.
  • The silence of night was only interrupted by the cries of the "morepork" in the minor key, like the mournful cuckoos of Europe. In Search of the Castaways
  • Things were moving into a minor key. Times, Sunday Times
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