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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Use of key signature usual or unusual 15 equal temperament: ... Aeolian mode or natural minor scale:
For example, a piece in E minor will have one sharp in its key signature because the E natural minor scale has one sharp (F ♯). Major and minor keys that share the same key signature are relative to each other. For instance, F major is the relative major of D minor since both have key signatures with one flat.
The scale degree chords of A minor are: Tonic – A minor; Supertonic – B diminished; Mediant – C major; Subdominant – D minor; Dominant – E minor; Submediant – F major; Subtonic – G major
Treble Clef Key Signature Music Flash Cards for Major and Minor Keys. Print double sided and cut along the major lines. If impossible, print the first page and fold to conceal the answers.
The Dorian mode corresponds to the natural minor scale with a major sixth. The Phrygian mode corresponds to the natural minor scale with a minor second. The Locrian is neither a major nor a minor mode because, although its third scale degree is minor, the fifth degree is diminished instead of perfect.
A key signature with no sharps or flats generally indicates A minor or C major, using all natural notes with no sharps or flats. The natural sign is derived from a square b used to denote B ♮ in medieval music (in contrast with the round b denoting B ♭ , which became the flat symbol).
The Phrygian mode (pronounced / ˈ f r ɪ dʒ i ə n /) can refer to three different musical modes: the ancient Greek tonos or harmonia, sometimes called Phrygian, formed on a particular set of octave species or scales; the medieval Phrygian mode, and the modern conception of the Phrygian mode as a diatonic scale, based on the latter.
The harmonic minor scale (or Aeolian ♮7 scale) is a musical scale derived from the natural minor scale, with the minor seventh degree raised by one semitone to a major seventh, [2] [3] [4] creating an augmented second between the sixth and seventh degrees.