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Major Minor (other)
Major minor may refer to: Music * Major and minor, the adjectives used to describe the tonality of a scale, key, or chord * Major-minor tonality, a system of music in which specific hierarchical pitch relationships are based on a key "center" or tonic * List of major/minor compositions, Major/minor composition, a musical composition that begins in a major key and ends in a minor key * ''Major/Minor'', an album by Thrice Other * Academic Academic major, majors and Academic minor, minors, the primary and secondary academic disciplines to which an undergraduate student formally commits. *Major Minor Records, a record label started by Phil Solomon in 1966 and later bought by EMI * ''Major Minor's Majestic March'', a 2009 music video game for the Nintendo Wii * ''The Major and the Minor'', a 1942 romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder * Major Minor, a character in the cartoon Snagglepuss * ''Major minor'', a species of fly in the genus ''Major (fly), Major'' See also * Majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major And Minor
In Western music, the adjectives major and minor may describe an interval, chord, scale, or key. A composition, movement, section, or phrase may also be referred to by its key, including whether that key is major or minor. The words derive from Latin words meaning "large" and "small," and were originally applied to the intervals between notes, which may be larger or smaller depending on how many semitones (half-steps) they contain. Chords and scales are described as major or minor when they contain the corresponding intervals, usually major or minor thirds. Intervals A major interval is one semitone larger than a minor interval. The words ''perfect'', ''diminished'' and ''augmented'' are also used to describe the quality of an interval. Only the intervals of a second, third, sixth, and seventh (and the compound intervals based on them) may be major or minor (or, rarely, diminished or augmented). Unisons, fourths, fifths, and octaves and their compound interval must be p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
