Major Minor

Major Minor

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
  • Major/minor composition, a musical composition that begins in a major key and ends in a minor key

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