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Meanings of minor scale in English

Portuguese
escala menor

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

        escala menor
        Russian
        moll
        Portuguese
        escala menor
        Spanish
        tonalidad menor
        Catalan
        escala menor

        Describes a type of music of acoustic tones.

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              Usage of minor scale in English
              1
              The triads in the minor scale are as follows:
              Music Notation and Terminology
              2
              Ut is always the dominant of a major scale, or the leading-note of a minor scale.
              Emile
              3
              There followed a minor scale, descending well into the depths and vibrating dismally as it went.
              The Twenty-Fourth of June: Midsummer's Day
              4
              The minor scale form having minor sixth and minor seventh above tonic to be called Primitive Minor.
              Music Notation and Terminology
              5
              The minor scale form having minor sixth and major seventh above tonic to be called Harmonic Minor.
              Music Notation and Terminology
              6
              The minor scale form having major sixth and major seventh above tonic to be called Melodic Minor.
              Music Notation and Terminology
              7
              Are you resigned about the C harmonic minor scale?
              Five Magical Piano Practice Techniques
              8
              And the E minor scale in harmonics!
              A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
              9
              The model, on a minor scale, is not unlike that used by Sepp Blatter to stay endlessly in power at Fifa.
              The Guardian
              10
              The scale is a curious minor scale with a sharp fourth, and is therefore anything but inviting to the fingers at first.
              The Masters and Their Music / A series of illustrative programs ...
              11
              They thus reproduce on a minor scale the attempt of the Knights of Labor during the eighties to engulf the more skilled trade unions.
              A History of Trade Unionism in the United States
              12
              The activities of the early agents ranged from propaganda to smuggling and espionage, though at the beginning the espionage was on a minor scale.
              Secret Armies / The New Technique of Nazi Warfare
              13
              He wrote a large number of songs, some of which, upon Russian subjects, are in queer minor scales.
              The Masters and Their Music / A series of illustrative programs ...
              14
              But the gayest rhythms can be written in these modes as easily as in the ordinary major and minor scales.
              Evelyn Innes
              15
              A faint echo of this ethical system persists to this day, with major scales alleged to connote happiness, while minor scales are "sad".
              The Irish Times
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              Translations for minor scale
              Portuguese
              escala menor