Sentence examples for relative minor from inspiring English sources

The first time, the major mode is briefly shadowed by a turn into the relative minor.

Climate change and renewable energy - although identified as crucial concerns - are relegated to a relative minor position.

It's only two chords - the major and its relative minor - and when the end of the lines resolve on that minor chord, there's something inexpressibly heartbreaking in it.

A minor key and it's probably, again, although we don't hear it — I don't hear it — we don't hear it, it's probably going to be the relative minor because it's just simpler structurally to operate that way.

(The dominant key is the one whose keynote is five tones above that of the tonic, as C G; the relative major has a keynote three tones above the relative minor, as A minor C major).

He was fascinated by Professor DeVore's fieldwork among the !Kung San of the Kalahari, and by the uses made of such data by Robert Trivers in his bid -- more ambitious, even, than E. O. Wilson's a few blocks away -- to lay bare the logic of human behavior, as if stripping down a Brahms trio to the sinews of dominant and relative minor.

Guitarists who play mainly open chords in these three major-keys and their relative minor-keys (Am, Em, Bm) may prefer standard tuning over an M3 tuning.

For example, an eighteenth-century clarinet in C could be played in F, C, and G (and their relative minors) with good intonation, but with progressive difficulty and poorer intonation as the key moved away from this range.

While many of the songs use Mr. Springsteen's favorite opening chords -- the major-to-relative minor change that pervades doo-wop -- Mr. O'Brien subtly reconfigured the E Street Band.

Together, these classical studies showed that prevention of GvHD should include perfect MHC match (preferably in ten MHC alleles), donation from relatives (minor antigens match), depletion of mature lymphocytes from the transplanted material, and immunosuppressive prophylaxis during the first post-transplant months.

We all share a "how-to-build-a-mammal" instruction manual, and the relatively minor genetic differences between us (minor relative to those we share in common) are the icing on the cake, as it were, that make us a human rather than a mouse, a chimp or a Neanderthal.