Sentence examples for minor key is from inspiring English sources

Its main theme, composed in a minor key, is at once elevated and brooding.

For some of us a minor key is the one that does the trick.

Each minor key is also entered on the circle, in the same position as its relative major.

New evidence for a musical phenomenon we've taken for granted for centuries: that the minor key is sadder than the major.

The sandunga, a Mexican dance in a minor key, is woven into "Tropicos," the third movement of Carlos Chávez's "Caballos del Vapor," given a vivacious interpretation here.

Hazlitt referred to it as tragedy in a minor key – that minor key is driven by a youthfulness and excitement and a pell-mell pace that is exciting to behold.

Her guitar-based melodies, many written in a minor key, are self-contained — you might even say self-protective — tunes that wrap around themselves like mantras.

The ensuing a cappella duet in a plaintive minor key was recorded before World War II by an anonymous ethnic music collector for Nippon Columbia, the Japanese division of Columbia Records.

At the arena, though, the trappings of stadium rock, albeit in a minor key, were being enlisted to make tennis appear hip and groovy – by corporate types, one assumes, who think it is hip and groovy to use terms such as "hip and groovy".

Slavery in a minor key was the focus of last night's Storyville: Circus Elephant Rampage (BBC4), about a baby elephant captured in Mozambique in 1974 and gunned down 20 years later in the streets of Honolulu after escaping from her life of performance and captivity with the circus.

Accordingly, 12 major keys and 12 minor keys are possible, and all are used in music.