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Definition of Minor scale
1. Noun. A diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th.
Definition of Minor scale
1. Noun. (music) A diatonic scale based upon a relative major scale by changing its tonic note by three semitones. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Minor Scale
Literary usage of Minor scale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Material Used in Musical Composition: A System of Harmony Designed by Percy Goetschius (1913)
"The so-called minor scale (or mode) is not a natural, but an artificial scale.
... This form of minor is called the harmonic minor scale, because it ..."
2. Manual of Harmony by Salomon Jadassohn, Paul Torek, Henry Bickford Pasmore (1890)
"In G major it can be worked out: CHAPTER V. The minor scale and its Triads. § 26.
The minor scale nearest related to a major scale has the same signature as ..."
3. Harmony Book for Beginners: A Text Book and Writing Book for the First Year by Preston Ware Orem (1916)
"We now come to a considerati *i of the minor scale. As this book has to do only
with the practical use of the Scales, as we find them, we will not go into ..."
4. Chambers's Information for the People by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1842)
"I i' we commence on the suth note of the scale already described, and ascend to
its octave, without altering t lie natural notes, we have the minor scale. ..."
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