Minor Scales
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Unlike the major scale, three different minor scales exist.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Scales, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Minor Scales, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
30 different key signatures exist (15 for major scales and 15 for minor scales). Most theory students are expected to memorize all 30.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Scales, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Major scales, Minor Scales, Key signatures, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
A key signature is a collection of every accidental found in a scale.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Major scales, Minor Scales, Curriculum support, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, Musictheory.net
Each note of a scale has a special name, called a scale degree.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Major scales, Minor Scales, Scale degrees, Curriculum support, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, Musictheory.net
While there is only one major scale, three different variations of the minor scale exist.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Scales, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Minor Scales, Curriculum support, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, Musictheory.net
Floating Balloons - Ford Mondeo advert, filmed in London. Excellent example of music creating mood with beautiful haunting Piano track in a minor key as accompaniment.
Official classification: Piano, Expressive & Descriptive Sounds, Advertisements, Video, Key Stage 3, Scales & tonality, Minor Scales, Harmony, Curriculum support, Unit 13. Music and media
Moving poem with some disturbing images of slavery in the US.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPBH57BWhpE
Contains an evocative backing track using drone and minor tonality but no harmonic changes ie uses one chord all the way through. It uses simple musical techniques to achieve an intense emotional effect.
Official classification: Poetry, Video, Minor Scales, Chord progressions, Drone, Curriculum support, Slavery
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