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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 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.
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
Compositions covering all major and/or minor keys (1 C, 20 P) Lists of symphonies by key (26 P)-Atonal compositions (2 C, 9 P) + Jazz compositions by key (21 C) A.
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Alicia Keys' first studio album, Songs in A Minor, was released 20 years ago this June, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200. So it's fitting that Keys is taking to the Billboard stage to ...
Now, a minor key does have a minor chord as its root, but there's no reason you have to linger on it the entire time, and so a song in a minor key can sound happier than a song in a major key, and conversly, the major scale doesn't seem to prevent anyone from creating sad music.