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Minor scale   /mˈaɪnər skeɪl/   Listen
Minor scale

noun
1.
A diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th.  Synonym: minor diatonic scale.





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"Minor scale" Quotes from Famous Books



... command of a case or of a career—would still doubtless come on the day I should be ready to pay for it; and till then might, as from far back, remain hung up well in view and just out of reach. The comparative case meanwhile would serve—it was only on the minor scale that I had treated myself ...
— The Ambassadors • Henry James


Words linked to "Minor scale" :   mode, minor diatonic scale, musical mode


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