Usually means: Musical scale with sad tones.
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  1. minor key: Merriam-Webster
  2. minor key: Collins English Dictionary
  3. minor key: Vocabulary.com
  4. minor-key: Wordnik
  5. minor key: Wiktionary
  6. minor key: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. minor key: Dictionary.com
  8. Minor key: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. minor key: Rhymezone
  10. minor key: FreeDictionary.org
  11. minor key: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. minor key: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. minor key: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. minor key: The Folk File

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Definitions from Wiktionary (minor key)

▸ noun:  (music) A musical key based upon a minor scale.

Similar:
melodic minor scale, A-minor, A minor, mode, modulation, minor mode, middle C, minor, modality, melodeon, more...

Opposite:
major key, tonality, tonal center

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Similar:
melodic minor scale, A-minor, A minor, mode, modulation, minor mode, middle C, minor, modality, melodeon, more...

Opposite:
major key, tonality, tonal center



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