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The title page of the first book of J.S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, which covers all 24 major and minor keys.. There is a long tradition in classical music of writing music in sets of pieces that cover all the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale.
Major and minor third in a major chord: major third 'M' on bottom, minor third 'm' on top. Major and minor may also refer to scales and chords that contain a major third or a minor third, respectively. A major scale is a scale in which the third scale degree (the mediant) is a major third above the tonic note.
Major/minor compositions are musical compositions that begin in a major key and end in a minor key (generally the parallel minor), specifying the keynote (as C major/minor). This is a very unusual form in tonal music, [1] [2] although examples became more common in the nineteenth century. [3]
Pages in category "Compositions covering all major and/or minor keys" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
minor: major — Minor pentatonic scale: Minor pentatonic scale on A. Play ...
Key (music) Music written in all major or minor keys; 0–9. 1F (music) 1S (music) 2F (music) 2S (music) 3F (music) 3S (music) 4F (music) 4S (music) 5F (music) 5S (music)
In modern music, the closeness of a relation between any two keys or sets of pitches may be determined by the number of tones they share in common, which allows one to consider modulations not occurring in standard major-minor tonality. For example, in music based on the pentatonic scale containing pitches C, D, E, G, and A, modulating a fifth ...
Major and minor, the adjectives used to describe the tonality of a scale, key, or chord; Major-minor tonality, a system of music in which specific hierarchical pitch relationships are based on a key "center" or tonic; Major/minor composition, a musical composition that begins in a major key and ends in a minor key; Major/Minor, an album by Thrice