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Definition of Minor key
1. Noun. A key based on the minor scale.
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
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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