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minor mode
noun
, Music.
- a scale or key in which the third degree is a minor third above the tonic.
minor mode
noun
- music any arrangement of notes present in or characteristic of a minor scale or key
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Word History and Origins
Origin of minor mode1
First recorded in 1770–80
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Example Sentences
This mode, it is obvious, is based on the scale which is the descending scale of the modern Minor mode.
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Let us take a concrete example: the change from the major to the minor mode carries with it a change of sentiment.
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Lest this should become monotonous a musician played a melody in the minor mode and not without a strange haunting charm.
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Thus it appears as a major scale with a diminished second and a minor sixth, a sort of major-minor mode.
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The minor mode is that of keys in which the tonic triad and one other cardinal triad are minor.
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