minor triad

American  

noun

Music.

1. a triad consisting in root position of a root tone with a minor third and a perfect fifth above.

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Example Sentences

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

Like all sixteenth-century composers, he knew that some chords felt especially close and comfortable next to one another: the C major triad, for example, contains two of the same notes as the E minor triad and is therefore closely related to it; likewise the E minor triad shares two of its notes with the G major triad and they too are closely related.

From Literature

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

The final song bursts into existence with a minor triad, the piano sounding like three trombones, like the furies themselves.

From Slate

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 Project Gutenberg