minor scale

English

Noun

minor scale (plural minor scales)

1. (music) Any diatonic scale whose first, third, and fifth scale degrees form a minor triad.
2. (music) The natural minor scale.

Hypernyms

• scale

Hyponyms

• natural minor scale
• harmonic minor scale
• Hungarian minor scale
• melodic minor scale

Related terms

• minor key
• modal scale

Translations

diatonic scale

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小音階／小音阶 (xiǎoyīnjiē), 小調音階／小调音阶, 小调音階 (xiǎodiào yīnjiē)

• Finnish: molliasteikko
• French: gamme mineure f, mode mineur m
• Hungarian: moll hangsor/skála
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: moll m

• Romanian: gamă minoră (ro) f
• Russian: мино́рная га́мма f (minórnaja gámma)
• Slovene: molova lestvica f

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