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/mˈaɪnər skeɪl/ Listen

Minor scale

noun

A diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th. Synonym: minor diatonic scale.

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... and pure example of Early English work from the hands of Bishop de Lucy. The aisles are said to have been used as a model in the building of Salisbury Cathedral. Similar processional aisles may be seen also at Hereford on a minor scale. This part of the cathedral is lower and consequently appears broader than the more westerly portion. There is a considerable amount of wall-space, only interrupted by the numerous imposing chantries ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester - A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See • Philip Walsingham Sergeant

... these major operations seem to have missed contact, there were many lively actions on a minor scale, the well-armed trading vessels of the north easily beating off the galley squadrons guarding Gibraltar and the routes past Spain. Among these lesser encounters, the famous "Last Fight of the Revenge," which ...

— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

Words linked to "Minor scale" : musical mode, minor diatonic scale, mode