minor scale

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minor scale

n. Music

A diatonic scale having a half step between the second and third degrees and any of several intervalic arrangements above the fifth.

minor scale

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minor scale - a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th

minor diatonic scale

musical mode, mode - any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

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