Meanings of minor third in English

The minor third harmony also occurs in three other measures,-inthese without preparation.

No matter who the garbage men are, their call is always the same: a descending minor third.

Yet among its dominant strike notes is a minor third interval, which also brings a melancholic and funereal element.

It occurs four times, each time followed immediately by the less primitive and more harmonious interval of a minor third.

On its repetition it is given a different turn, the scale having a major seventh, but minor third and sixth.

The length represented by 3:4 yields the fourth; 4:5 the major third; and 5:6 the minor third.

Composer Orlando Gough said: The tones of Souter's fog horn are almost a minor third, and can be heard from miles away.

His boat-shaped harp of thirteen strings was tuned in minor thirds, so you could readily pick out Celtic tunes on it.

We now ascend by minor thirds until we reach the C, octave above middle C, which we call 3C, as follows:

II, following, demonstrating the result of dividing the octave into four minor thirds, and Proposition III, demonstrating the result of twelve perfect fifths.