Minor scale Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th
minor diatonic scale.
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(Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various. The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor, with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which involves an augmented second interval, or three semitones, between the sixth and seventh, as,6/F ,7/G♯ ,8/A . But, for melodic purposes, both the sixth and the seventh are sometimes made major in the ascending, and minor in the descending, scale, thus:Comm: an illustration of a bar with ascending and descending notes on a minor scale Major .