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Harmonic minor scale

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natural minor scalenoun(music) A type of minor scale with the 3rd, 6th, and 7th notes lowered by one semitone, with the interval pattern:
minor scalenoun(music) The natural minor scale.
dorian modenoun(music) A mode whose scale is the same as a minor key with the sixth scale degree raised by one half step, with the interval pattern:
mixolydian modenoun(music) A mode whose scale is the same as a major key with the seventh scale degree lowered by one half step, with the interval pattern:
minornoun(law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
phrygian modenoun(music) A mode whose scale is the same as a minor key with the second scale degree lowered by one half step, with the interval pattern:
diminished sixthnoun(music) an interval that is formed by chromatically lowering the upper note of a minor sixth.
major sixthnoun(music) A musical interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 5/3. It is one chromatic semitone wider than a minor sixth. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of nine semitones, spans six degrees of the diatonic scale, and is enharmonically equivalent to a diminished seventh.
diminished seventh chordnoun(music) a chord with the bass note, minor third, diminished fifth, and diminished seventh above it
diminished thirdnoun(music) An interval that is equivalent to a minor third narrowed by one chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, this is equivalent to a major second.
minor intervalnoun(music) an interval that is either a minor second, minor third, minor sixth, or a minor seventh
c minornoun(music) a minor key with the notes C, D, E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭/B
minor secondnoun(music) an interval that is equivalent to the difference between the third and fourth degrees of a diatonic major scale.
diminished seventhnoun(music) A musical interval equivalent to narrowing a minor seventh by one chromatic semitone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of nine semitones and spans seven degrees of the diatonic scale, is one semitone narrower than a minor seventh, and is enharmonically equivalent to a major sixth.
b minornoun(music) a minor key with the notes B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, A
minor sixthnoun(music) A musical interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 8:5. It is one chromatic semitone narrower than a major sixth. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of eight semitones and spanning six degrees of the diatonic scale, and is enharmonically equivalent to an augmented fifth.
aeolian modenoun(music) A mode whose scale is the same as a natural minor scale, with the interval pattern:
minor seventh chordnoun(music) a chord with the bass note, the minor third, perfect fifth, and the minor seventh above it
major seventhnoun(music) A musical interval in Western music that approximates a frequency ratio of 15/8. It is one semitone wider than a minor seventh. In twelve-tone equal temperament, it consists of eleven semitones, spans seven degrees of the diatonic scale, and is enharmonically equivalent to a diminished octave.
minor chordnoun(music) Any musical chord which has a minor third, as opposed to a major third, above its root, especially a minor triad.

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