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minor scale
Music any of the twelve diatonic scales distinguished from the major scale with the same keynote by a semitone after the second and seventh tones or after the second, fifth, and seventh tones
See minor scale in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
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Music
A diatonic scale having a half step between the second and third degrees and any of several intervalic arrangements above the fifth.
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