NOUN
- a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th
How To Use minor scale In A Sentence
- Musical literacy requires knowledge of major and minor scales, key signatures, intervals and triad spelling.
- It's difficult to advise others about the perils of this kind of lifestyle, especially when one has been sucked into it, albeit on a minor scale compared to some people's levels of borrowing.
- The opulent, yet bright orchestration and the chromatic melismata around the tritone and the melodic minor scale all point toward the composer of Schelomo.
- Of or using only the eight tones of a major or minor scale without chromatic deviations.
- This interval between the first and third tones consists of four half-steps in the major scale and of three half-steps in the minor scale and this difference in size has given rise to the designation _major_ for the scale having the larger third, and _minor_ for the scale having the smaller one. Music Notation and Terminology
- The missionaries started out helping the sick on a minor scale, but soon things had gone so far that circumstances began to govern the missionaries.
- A minor scale having the same signature as a major scale is said to be its _relative minor_. Music Notation and Terminology
- A minor scale beginning with the same tone as a major scale is referred to as its _tonic minor_. Music Notation and Terminology
- Yeah, remember we had-- he was coming up a minor scale.
- To start with, let's have a brief review of major and minor scale harmony.