Sentence examples for a minor third from inspiring English sources
In the second section, where you would expect to find a rigorous development of the initial material, Shostakovich instead picks out two details—a minor third and a decorative trill and fixates on them in a fabulously eerie hundred-and-twenty-bar passage, as if to prove that he can hold you enthralled with next to nothing.
Minor, [plays piano] changes those around, [plays piano] a minor third on the bottom, major on top, major, [plays piano] minor.
I bet Smith heard a minor third differently from us, too.
You could go down a minor third and then up a second.
Then the harmony darkly implodes, as major and minor triads collide across the interval of a minor third.
Remember we've had major triads, with major third in the bottom, a minor third on the top.
A minor ninth on E, in C minor?
Out there in the ether a minor second would sound just as peaceful as a major third.
The 92-miles-per-hour slider he used to slip away from a minor fifth-inning jam seemed unhittable.
I've had to learn to sing a tritone as easily as a whole step, and a minor ninth as easily as an octave.
