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Major key   /mˈeɪdʒər ki/   Listen
Major key

noun
1.
A key whose harmony is based on the major scale.  Synonym: major mode.






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"Major key" Quotes from Famous Books



... favorite group of notes, constituting motives of a peculiar rhythm, which are employed with evident preference. Thus, the use of the minor seventh instead of the major seventh (as in "Wha'll be King but Charlie?"), and the sudden modulation from the minor key to the major key, a whole tone below, are in exact accord with the bagpipe, and are more certain in the strathspeys, reels and dances which are universally played on that instrument; the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various

... demur to their having only the minor key. The natural ascent of the voice is in the major key, and with their exquisite sensibility to sound they could not have missed the obvious expression of cheerfulness. With their three scales, diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic, they must have exhausted every possible expression ...
— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock



Words linked to "Major key" :   tonality, major mode, key



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