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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.
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
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The minor ninth is rather dissonant in sound, [2] and in European classical music, often appears as a suspension. Béla Bartók wrote a study in minor 9ths for piano. The fourth movement (an intermezzo ) of Robert Schumann 's Faschingsschwank aus Wien is constructed to feature prominent notes of the melody a minor ninth above the accompaniment:
Comparison between tunings: Pythagorean, equal-tempered, quarter-comma meantone, and others.For each, the common origin is arbitrarily chosen as C. The degrees are arranged in the order or the cycle of fifths; as in each of these tunings except just intonation all fifths are of the same size, the tunings appear as straight lines, the slope indicating the relative tempering with respect to ...
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
Fourth factor (F), in red, of a C suspended fourth chord, C sus4 (play ⓘ).. The fourth degree is octave equivalent to the eleventh. The dominant eleventh chord could be alternatively notated as the very unorthodox ninth added fourth chord (C 9add4), from where omitting the 3rd produces the more common ninth suspended fourth chord (C 9sus4, also known as the jazz sus chord).
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 ]