Major And Minor
In Western music, the adjectives major and minor can describe a musical composition, movement, section, scale, key, chord, or interval.
Major and minor are frequently referred to in the titles of classical compositions, especially in reference to the key of a piece.
Read more about Major And Minor: Intervals and Chords, Keys, Scales and Chords, Intonation and Tuning, Advanced Theory
Famous quotes containing the words major and/or minor:
“There are three major offenses against filial piety of which not producing an heir is the worst.”
—Chinese proverb.
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“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)