minor key

English

Noun

minor key (plural minor keys)

1. (music) A musical key based upon a minor scale.
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (idiomatic) A mood of melancholy or pathos.

Related terms

• major key

Translations

music: a musical key based upon a minor scale

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小調／小调 (zh) (xiǎodiào), 小调 (zh) (xiǎodiào)

• Finnish: molli (fi)
• French: mode mineur m, tonalité mineure f
• German: Molltonart f, Moll (de) n
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• Irish: mionghléas m
• Japanese: 短調 (ja) (たんちょう, tanchō)
• Polish: tonacja molowa f
• Russian: мино́рная тона́льность f (minórnaja tonálʹnostʹ), мино́р (ru) m (minór)
• Swedish: molltonart (sv) c, moll (sv)

Adjective

minor key (comparative more minor key, superlative most minor key)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (idiomatic) In a restrained manner; on a small or limited scale.

See also

• key signature