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minor mode

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minor mode
n
(Music, other) Music any arrangement of notes present in or characteristic of a minor scale or key
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Noun1.minor mode - a key based on the minor scaleminor mode - a key based on the minor scale      
tonality, key - any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music


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Considering artist-run centres as a form of minor practice suggests that they borrow and divert power from major, established models in order to produce something unique, unpredictable, and in constant variation--much like the minor mode in music.
Viewers are bound to recall their own individual memories of his pop-cultural sources, suggesting that these compositions comprise Clark's history and yet also, in a minor mode, a collective one.
Here Hazlewood did his level best to explain the emotions behind the music, and it has to be said that the polished performance conjured up met the anticipations that Hazlewood had roused, with the slow movement seemingly aching to slip into the minor mode but unable to do so.
 
 
 
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