minor key

English

Noun

minor key (plural minor keys)

1. (music) A musical key based upon a minor scale.

Related terms

• in a minor key
• major key

Translations

music: a musical key based upon a minor scale

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小調／小调 (zh) (xiǎodiào)

• Finnish: molli (fi)
• French: mode mineur m, tonalité mineure f
• German: Molltonart f, Moll (de) n
• Hungarian: moll hangnem
• Irish: mionghléas m
• Japanese: 短調 (ja) (たんちょう, tanchō)
• Polish: tonacja molowa f
• Russian: мино́рная тона́льность f (minórnaja tonálʹnostʹ), мино́р (ru) m (minór)
• Swedish: molltonart (sv) c, moll (sv)

See also

• key signature