Definition of Minor key

1. Noun. A key based on the minor scale.

Exact synonyms: Minor Mode
Generic synonyms: Key, Tonality

Definition of Minor key

1. Noun. (music) A musical key based upon a minor scale. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minor Key

minor chord
minor connector
minor diameter
minor diatonic scale
minor duodenal papilla
minor expense
minor fissure
minor forceps
minor hippocampus
minor histocompatibility antigens
minor histocompatibility loci
minor hypnosis
minor hysteria
minor interval
minor intervals
minor key (current term)
minor keys
minor league
minor leaguer
minor leagues
minor lymphocyte stimulatory antigens
minor lymphocyte stimulatory loci
minor mode
minor motor seizure
minor ninth
minor ninths
minor operation
minor planet
minor planets
minor premise

Literary usage of Minor key

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In other words, a major and minor key on tSe sime tonic are felt as identical in everything but expression fi point in which the Tonic Sol Fa system, ..."

2. Chambers's Information for the People: A Popular Encyclopaedia by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1853)
"In the above examples of transitions from С major, or A minor, to other keys, these notes must be understood as standing for any major or minor key, ..."

3. The Nature of Harmony and Metre by Moritz Hauptmann (1888)
"The minor key. is isolated, without the power of passage into others. ... But the notion of separation, out of which the minor key proceeds, is in principle ..."

4. Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs by Richard Wallaschek (1893)
"Dr. Muller was of opinion that among nearly all nations the popular songs sound as if they were in the minor key.1 Helmholtz, however, was told by an ..."

5. Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs by Richard Wallaschek (1893)
"Dr. Muller was of opinion that among nearly all nations the popular songs sound as if they were in the minor key.1 Helmholtz, however, was told by an ..."

6. A Treatise on Counterpoint & Fugue by Luigi Cherubini, Joseph Bennett (1884)
"When it is a question of composing a piece in a minor key, these are the keys into which modulation may be made—into the SUB-DOMINANT, and into the DOMINANT ..."

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