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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 ]
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
List of musical scales and modes Name Image Sound Degrees Intervals Integer notation # of pitch classes Lower tetrachord Upper tetrachord Use of key signature usual or unusual ; 15 equal temperament
Since the natural minor scale is built on the 6th degree of the major scale, the tonic of the relative minor is a major sixth above the tonic of the major scale. For instance, B minor is the relative minor of D major because the note B is a major sixth above D. As a result, the key signatures of B minor and D major both have two sharps (F ...
(September 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) In music, two written notes have enharmonic equivalence if they produce the same pitch but are notated differently. Similarly, written intervals , chords , or key signatures are considered enharmonic if they represent identical pitches that are notated differently.
Piano Sonata in A minor, D 784 (Schubert) Piano Sonata in A minor, D 845 (Schubert) Piano Sonata No. 2 (Szymanowski) Piano Sonata No. 3 (Prokofiev) Piano Sonata No. 8 (Mozart) Piano Trio (Ravel) Piano Trio (Tchaikovsky) Piano Trio in A minor (Hill) Piano Trio in A minor (Sibelius) Pomp and Circumstance Marches; Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
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