minor triad
Americannoun
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Both of them are more musical than me, and I felt embarrassed to always offer up the most predictable note, the vanilla pop chord; never finding an exotic minor triad like they did.
From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2018
I gave him a tone centre of E natural and said, you can play F, G minor, E minor triad, C triad, all these chords … and he'd play all of them.
From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2012
The final song bursts into existence with a minor triad, the piano sounding like three trombones, like the furies themselves.
From Slate • Oct. 1, 2012
C—E—G. A minor triad has a minor third and a perfect fifth, i.e., it is a minor third with a major third on top of it.
From Music Notation and Terminology by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson
The minor triad differs from the major only in that the second member is lowered a semi-tone.
From Architecture and Democracy by Bragdon, Claude Fayette
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