| 单词 | minor key |
| 例句 | Even though they have the same key signature, a minor key and its relative major sound very different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The modal sound did not disappear completely after it had been supplanted by the major and minor keys. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Music that is in a minor key is sometimes described as sounding more solemn, sad, mysterious, or ominous than music that is in a major key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I also like songs in minor keys—they’re sad and deep and take me to a mountaintop someplace. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z A “major key” music piece communicates cheer, while a “minor key” mirrors grief. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z What would they become, and are these altered chords also likely to be used in the minor key? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z His music, joyfully and abundantly at ease with the new major and minor key palette, was a gateway to the extraordinary creative possibilities opening up with the new system. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We would exchange remedies and try to outdo each other in the recital of our physical miseries; gently we would complain, our voices soft and minor key and mournful as pigeons in the eaves troughs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A minor key is called the relative minor of the major key that has the same key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Name the major and minor keys for each key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Name the next three sharp minor keys, and the sharp that is added in each key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Music in minor keys has a different sound and emotional feel, and develops differently harmonically. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In the same way, all minor keys are so alike that music can easily be transposed from one minor key to another. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I sat at the computer, my eyes closed, elbows against the desk, and listened to a voice singing in a minor key. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z In fact, most musicians, and even many non-musicians, can distinguish major and minor keys just by listening to the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Figure 4.44: The major key for each key signature is shown as a capital letter; the minor key as a small letter. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z If the final chord is the tonic of either the major or minor key for that key signature, you have almost certainly identified the key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He followed by singing a haunting eulogy in a minor key. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The whistle blares intermittently in a minor key. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z If the final chord is not the tonic of either the major or the minor key for that key signature, there are two possibilities. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The expectations for music in a minor key are a little different than for music in a major key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In fact, the differences in sound between a major key and a minor key is one of the first differences that a musician should be able to hear. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It sounds sad the second time, as if he shifted to a minor key. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Three are in a major key and two in a minor key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What are the relative majors of the minor keys in Figure 4.18? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z One is that the music is not in a major or minor key! Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The scale that is created by playing all the notes in a minor key signature is a natural minor scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They contain only the notes in the minor key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Hershberg tells some of these kinds of jokes, too, but they tend to be more minor key and straightforward: jabs, not big swings. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Then, with the sensuous "l" sound in a minor key, the word "lowers" descends like a cloud. Luminary by RS Thomas: Poem of the week 2013-06-17T11:37:44Z It moves us because it celebrates love without begging or bragging, and because of the pathos of its minor key; its unconsoled, recurring awareness of that "ever-during night". Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion 2010-03-22T10:50:00Z “Oh my hopeless wanderer,” she sings at the start of the track, tracing an upward arpeggio in a minor key. The Playlist: Burial and Laura Marling Slip Deeper Into the Void 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z I just think my voice lends itself better to minor keys. Glastonbury festival: Jessie Ware's wildest moments 2013-06-29T23:05:17Z Behind the action a stringed instrument keens in a low register and a piano riff trembles in a gentle minor key. Actually, "Bridgerton" sex is not good sex 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z Most important, Egarr’s interpretative choices follow the sunny arc of Bach’s set, in which three suites in minor keys are succeeded by three in major keys. CD reviews: A cellist’s solo “Trance.” 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z But Spain's continuing political isolation under Franco meant that it failed to participate fully in the European new waves, and remained relentlessly minor key. A short history of Spanish cinema 2011-03-29T08:08:00Z Some of the music is neither in a major nor a minor key, but the harmonies still tilt toward minor. Movie Review: Godfrey Reggio’s ‘Visitors’ Is a Slow Parade of Faces 2014-01-23T13:00:01Z Even as she rejoices, “A home in you I’ve found,” the chords circle around a minor key and she sounds cautious, almost disbelieving. Jorja Smith Puts a Beat Behind Mixed Emotions on ‘Falling or Flying’ 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Alone at the piano tracing a minor key melody, the artist seemed to stare into the abyss, not with fear as before, but with resolve. Perfume Genius sashays as he devastates a sold-out Roxy 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z For scenes of discord, Mr. Howard said, “It’s all minor key. Usually D and C minor are like, drama.” The Sound of ‘Housewives’ Everywhere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z In the next scene, the soldiers arrive and, to harsh minor key chords, begin to push the young people around before full-scale fighting ensues. At Dresden Semperoper, a New Take on ‘Tristan and Isolde’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Composed a year after the Third, the “Tragic” is Schubert’s first symphony in a minor key and his most problematic orchestral work. Dudamel gives Schubertian tragedy a surprising buoyancy 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z A vinyl record played synthesized chimes, their tone determined by a computer analysis of the emotions those posts expressed — a major key if they were positive ones, a minor key if negative. Young Digital Artists, Anxious About ... Technology 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z And they were mostly in minor keys, full of blues and ghosts — not just the sad, driven men and women in the lyrics but the hard-livers who wrote them or taught them to him, too. Music Review: Casually Tough, Steeled by Ghosts 2010-12-16T23:04:03Z Shot in a moody, muted palette and scored in a minor key, "The Returned" is not promoting a sunny side of zombies. A&E's eerie 'The Returned' veers far from usual zombie tale 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z A rich, emotional reaction issued in the summer, the minor key song opens with Cole sounded exasperated, declaring that "ain't no drink out there that can numb my soul." In 2014, hip hop takes a potent stand 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z But life’s incidental urgencies, the bummers in a minor key, often play as meaningful, if momentary, role in our days. Little Disappointments: Adele to Raphael 2013-02-16T15:00:00Z What themes does this minor key overture seem to be setting up? “Breaking Bad,” Season five, episode one: The end begins 2012-07-16T11:15:00Z Tinariwen’s music has sometimes been called “desert blues,” and the group’s penchant for writing songs in minor key modes certainly creates a sound that has a blue feeling. Tinariwen?s ?Tassili?: Desert Blues, Recorded On-Site 2011-08-31T16:18:25Z Over in comedy land, the category that time forgot – due to their tendency to make the same safe choices every year – change, albeit in a minor key, was afoot. Emmy nominations 2012: Downton dominates, despite its flaws 2012-07-19T16:04:00Z Mr. Swift tends to write in a minor key, and there have long been Larkinesque clouds of disappointment wafting over his characters’ lives. Review: Graham Swift’s ‘England and Other Stories,’ a Darkness Across Time and Fates 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Besides which, the use of the minor key in any song or symphony is only one way to communicate sadness. Why are minor keys in music sad? 2010-06-29T12:03:00Z Mills smartly keeps the dramatic incidents in a minor key, and while Johnny and Jesse bond, they also argue over small stuff. ‘C’mon C’mon’ Review: Are You My Mommy? 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z That refrain was repeated in major and minor key as intricate patchworks of fabric built a vest or an elongated tunic. Special Report: Looking for a New Elegance 2010-06-25T17:28:00Z Already evident in the piece is a propensity for surprising shifts between major and minor keys. Music Review: Interpreting Several Phases of a Singular Creator 2011-02-27T22:57:49Z They also had a penchant for minor keys that lend a melancholy tinge, even while the songs dance ahead. New Music: Albums From Moon Honey, Peter Walker and Angola Soundtrack 2013-12-30T22:16:58Z But we sing in a minor key To remember that we suffered! Watch Patti LuPone Play a Rabbi on ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z In her black costumes, she sang slow, weighty songs in somber minor keys, rearranged with a deep bass undertow. Review: Selena Gomez, a Disney Graduate, Majors in Angst Onstage 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The first movement is a haunting series of cyclic riffs, swirling runs and fidgety flights that skirt major and minor keys. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z When the slow movement’s untroubled, bucolic aria suddenly takes an ominous wrong turn into the minor key, the contrast is startling. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Siirala played them too, but he was careful not to overdo the stormy Beethovenian drama of this atypical Mozart concerto, one of only two in minor keys. Music Review: At Mostly Mozart, Osmo Vanska and Antti Siirala 2010-08-15T22:23:00Z Backed by a piano player wearing a top hat, it became a waltz in a minor key, with Madonna singing in an uncharacteristically low, slightly scratchy register: her Lotta Lenya voice, unassisted. In Newest Spectacle, Madonna Morphs but Refuses to Give In 2012-08-29T10:57:00Z But it includes, as MoMA did not, Mr. Richter’s work in glass sculpture; his mirrors that throw back your reflection in a bereft minor key; and his editions and recent digital prints. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The stage backdrop was a flat, empty prairie, and the songs were just as desolate: mostly slow, mostly in minor keys and almost entirely bleak. Music Review: Jakob Dylan at Town Hall, Bleak and Somber 2010-04-22T21:42:00Z And it’s not really in a major key; it’s not really in a minor key. Dawes plugs in on “We’re All Gonna Die”: “We wanted to go beyond the more traditional approaches we’d taken” 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Ashley O, the person behind the public image, has a notebook teeming with material for songs, written in minor keys, that address emotional truths. The Best Episode of the New “Black Mirror” Is a Princess Tale Starring Miley Cyrus 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Whereas most blockbusters rouse, Alien has always been a tune played in an ominous minor key. Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never die 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Often, Jay-Z’s boasts are contested by tracks with their own stubborn agendas: minor keys, empty spaces, unyielding arrangements that make his rhymes dodge and weave around them. Music Review: Jay-Z Frets on ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ 2013-07-04T22:31:32Z While Connell is playing variations on his major theme – one shock following another, Mrs Bridge's fitful reflections, a distraction, oblivion – something darker and more compelling is going on in the minor key. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z Reeder always likes working in a minor key — and he has to be careful of trapping his shows in a kind of melancholic loop, when we also need bursts of staccato and possibility. Three stars for drafty 'Three Days of Rain' at Viaduct 2011-05-25T21:37:21Z An acoustic guitar goes Latino in a minor key, and King sings gently: "Sweeter than wine/ Softer than the summer night..." Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z Much of the rest of “Strange and Familiar” lingers in this minor key. Great Britain, Strange and Familiar 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z In his straightforward traversal of the three-part Sinfonias, Goode’s attempts to sustain a more meditative mood for some of the minor key pieces were let down by the inelegance of his touch. Richard Goode lends a lively voice to an exuberant all-Bach piano program 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Slow and sweet and unassuming, “Driveways,” the second feature from the Korean-American director Andrew Ahn, tackles major themes in a minor key. ‘Driveways’ Review: What Friends Are For 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z This personal story reflects the sad, often lilting melody of “Uncommon Measure,” which is written in a mostly minor key. A Violinist Rethinks Her Devotion to Music, With Emotion and Erudition 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z “Nobody’s Daughter” sometimes taps into grunge nostalgia with its loud-soft alt-rock tropes and minor key melodies; there is a classic rock feel too, courtesy of the new band. Music: Courtney Love?s Improbable Second Act 2010-04-15T18:37:00Z But it’s also strangely beautiful, like distant music in a minor key. In the Bahamas, Scuba Diving With James Bond’s Trainer 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The overture of “Madama Butterfly” is very fast and energetic, in a minor key, that sounds very Western. The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z A contrasting section in minor key is spiked with syncopated accented notes in the piano that are almost maniacal. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Ferry Corsten, also Dutch, made his trance more ominous by dipping into minor keys. Music Review: Electric Zoo 2011, Dance Festival on Randalls Island 2011-09-04T22:47:17Z To a funky riff in a minor key, the song tells female fans that a star like Jackson is both irresistible and untouchable. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z The tracks, mostly in minor keys, are bass heavy, unhurried and unexpectedly thoughtful. Playlist: New Albums by Pretty Lights, India Arie, Thriftstore Masterpiece, Daughn Gibson and Cheyenne Mize 2013-07-05T16:58:42Z The music favors doleful minor keys and skeletal harmonies. Pop Music in 2017: Glum and Glummer 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z She sings apocalyptic lyrics over a foreboding minor key motif. ArtsBeat: Adele Releases New Bond Theme Song 2012-10-05T15:42:11Z “We Jews got a painful history that we choose to convey in minor keys,” Shelly croons at a sacred ceremony as a critique, not an endorsement. The "Transparent Musicale Finale" is a fitting eulogy for a wacky, messy series 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z But she has shed the lighter, more sparkly aspects of her music, favoring minor keys, open guitar chords and the occasional stouthearted background chorus. The Week Ahead: Oct. 30 ? Nov. 5 2011-10-27T18:15:00Z Even so, “Mozart and Contemporaries” came off as an unbroken, unfurling, hypnotically broad, almost dreamlike silk of sound, inward-looking and wistful in both major and minor keys, in both andante and allegro. Review: A Pianist Explores Mozart the Late Bloomer 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z At the beginning of Act IV comes Barbarina's aria – the only piece in the opera in a minor key. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z There’s another spoken word outro here, too, and it’s equally as inexplicable and uncomfortable; at one point, a minor key disco guitar is introduced just by Timberlake saying “guitar.” Justin Timberlake Overreaches on His 20/20 Follow-Up 2013-10-02T09:45:12Z The opening — in which we see Julie tapping with the chorus of “Tickled Pink” — is a neat minor key up-tempo number in the style of Irving Berlin. Review: ‘The Royal Family of Broadway,’ This Time in Song 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z He places himself in "that unnamed, shifting border between East Harlem and the rest of Manhattan", knowing that the mere mention of Harlem, to some white non-New Yorkers, will resonate in a minor key. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z Schubert claimed the piece was in G major, but the two central movements are in minor keys, and the outer ones struggle fitfully toward their G major conclusions. Dover Quartet begins Kennedy residence with style 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The biggest combatants were practitioners of complex, cutting-edge 12-tone composition who claimed the intellectual high ground and those who still wrote sonatas, symphonies and such, in essentially major and minor keys. 2010-02-12T17:26:00Z The piece also makes use of "Picardy thirds", an emotive trick common in Renaissance music, whereby a minor key suddenly stabilises into a major, punching home with the force of a revelation. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z That feeling of the uncanny—the universe rhyming in a minor key, the recurring bad dream—is the undercurrent of almost all of Stevie Smith’s poems, although a few of them are festooned by joy. The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Her guitar-based melodies, many written in a minor key, are self-contained — you might even say self-protective — tunes that wrap around themselves like mantras. 2010-01-30T05:31:00Z Most songs are in stark minor keys, and hope is never guaranteed. New From Roots, Travie McCoy, Jason Moran and Nina Nastasia 2010-06-20T23:48:00Z The task today is to paint the experience of seeing in a world mediated by screens, and these black-lit works continue that exploration, riffing off the Flavin Institute in a minor key. Jacqueline Humphries’s Digital Paintings, Aglow in the Dark 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The minor key romance “Alone Together” is a modest affair, which credibly depicts the kinds of conversations about relationships that many people were confronted with during the early days of the pandemic. ‘Alone Together’ Review: Finding Love in a Pandemic Retreat 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Dmitri Shostakovich once told a friend that he planned to compose 24 string quartets, one in each of the major and minor keys. Carducci Quartet takes on Shostakovich’s quartets at the Phillips 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Its first two singles bear a lot of the previous release’s markings: tons of horns, voices and strings; lengthy tunes, often in minor keys. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Is Ready to Rumble, and 11 More New Songs 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z I sat as he played, and marveled quietly when his hands turned the melody unexpectedly, a new minor key, a delicious twist that only he could have invented. Swept Up in the Whirlwind Known as Michel Legrand 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Considering the grim sentiment, Petra said she was surprised the composers hadn't written the song in a moodier minor key. The Haden Triplets see folk as part of their musical DNA 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z A minute before the end, he lands on a sort of jazzed-up F-major chord, which, after a brief move to a minor key, resolves itself back into F — a moment of deep structural satisfaction. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Classical Music 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z David Stubbs The score of Whitechapel is approximately 17 times more sinister than what's happening on screen, all screeching violins in minor keys. TV highlights 13/02/2012 2012-02-12T20:00:17Z Just one of Mavis’s long moans, Cleotha’s swoops into a minor key, or a trembling chord on Pops’s guitar could instantly evoke the world they’d left behind.” Books of The Times: ‘I’ll Take You There,’ by Greg Kot 2014-02-20T13:00:01Z But I think it did allow him to access a beguiling minor key in his writing. Where does all the best comedy come from? Death and war 2012-07-06T21:30:01Z The Philharmonic opted for the Scherzo first, which in the context of Ms. Young’s interpretation made the joyous ending of the first movement all the more pathetic by plunging immediately back into a minor key. Review: Absent 20 Years, a Conductor Rescues the Philharmonic 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Yet Chopin’s collection of preludes in all the major and minor keys emerges in this reading as a compositional entity. Classical Playlist: Chopin, Mendelssohn, Gilbert Kalish and More 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z “The River” is conducted in a more minor key, and is also a more minor effort. Hugh Jackman Stars in ‘The River’ on Broadway 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z The second song shifted between Latin and swinging rhythm, in both major and minor keys. Swinging the Vote: Jazz Inspired by the Presidential Race 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z For the first season, the pre-eminent drummer and sometime keyboardist Jack DeJohnette recorded his first solo piano album, “Return,” a collection of gentle but austere compositions, often in a plaintive minor key. Streams? What Streams? For Newvelle Records, Vinyl Is the Future 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Medieval music and contemporary music both fall outside the strictures of the tonal system of major or minor keys, either because they preexisted that system or because their composers eschewed it. Review | JACK Quartet challenges the listener in ways both old and new 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z On “Sweetener,” her breakthrough album, trauma is bright and sadness is luxurious and God is a woman, cooing about resilience in a minor key. Our Favorite Songs of 2018 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z “Metals” is a sometimes gray and draggy record, full of minor keys, uncomfortable truths and unanswerable questions. Music Review: Feist at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - Review 2011-11-03T21:20:18Z Everything about The Morning Show – the themes, the set design, the minor key acoustic cover songs – screams of Sorkinesque prestige. Apple TV+: should you shell out for the new streaming service? 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z He once said: “With religious music, the minor key always recurs. When I compose songs, I often use the minor key.” The king of the rumba 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The Hudson river gets a namecheck, on a minor key rat-a-tat of a song that begins with the explorer for whom New York's river is named. Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City – review 2013-05-11T23:05:18Z And in November, not long after the media called the presidential election for Joe Biden, “EMOTIONAL” set minor key melodies to an invitingly danceable tempo — a celebratory song that couldn’t shake its anxiety. Review | In a lost year for dance music, Bergsonist kept a techno diary 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Moving at a fast, nine-beat clip, Mäensivu’s bass line squares up firmly in a minor key, easing you into a space of feeling before the tune’s harmonic center starts shifting around. Taylor Swift’s Revised ‘Revenge,’ and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z “As so often is the case with Mozart,” the minor keys works are “not so dark,” Mr. Vanska said by telephone from Minneapolis. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? 14 2010-08-04T19:06:00Z The novel shifts into a minor key of doomy disquietude as events unfold. In Ireland, the Past Is Always Present and So Are Its Ghosts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z As a character, Russell himself is not particularly vivid — there have always been guys like him, at least in a minor key. Emma Cline's 'The Girls' is a gorgeous, disqueiting spin on Manson family dynamics 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z “Soldier of Love” is another collection of slow, pensive songs, mostly in minor keys, often pondering lost love and uncertain journeys. 2010-02-06T00:53:00Z In his satire of show-business arrogance he brings to mind Steve Martin in a minor key. Critic?s Notebook: Todd Barry at Caroline?s Comedy Club 2012-03-21T20:54:48Z The mood is melancholic, redoubled by long, drawn-out notes from the strings and minor key piano arpeggios; passages of happiness feel fragile, fleeting, untrustworthy. 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart' review: In this moving drama, mysteries abound 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z The conflict endures, but in a minor key for now. Putin Wants Fealty, and He’s Found It in Africa 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z The catalyst for cinema’s turn from a major to minor key isn’t hard to find. Hollywood is still hung up on the toxic, brilliant chef. Is it time to move forward? 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z “Atlanta” sets a tone that is a little melancholic but not pessimistic; it’s aspirational in a minor key. The 75 best TV shows on Hulu right now, according to our experts 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Even so, he says, Looking High's sepia-toned memories shift from a major to a minor key, "because those clubs are all closed down now and our friends have moved out of Oxford". Foals on feral nights out, becoming a trio and filming in Kyiv 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr Wallace states the UK government's position in the minor key compared to the fortissimo of the foreign secretary. Ukraine crisis: UK defence secretary warns Russia of tragic effects 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The dour F minor key and abrasive strumming give the gift of broad, atmospheric ennui to those who want to stew. Why I Keep Listening to Green Day’s ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z “There was a terrible sense of foreboding, like in a movie when the minor key music starts playing,” says Robert Arntfield, a critical care physician at Western University in London, Canada. How do you treat coronavirus? Here are physicians’ best strategies 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The Lexington Herald in Kentucky described it as a “weird, minor key lament.” What really happened when the FBI prosecuted Billie Holiday 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z No matter: “Lying Life” is a masterwork in its own minor key, featuring a teenager who reacts to her family’s dissolution in ways both expected and bracingly strange. The 20 reads book people actually want this year 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Jeremy Crawford has reduced me to tears with this minor key reprise of the show’s theme. Ratatouille the musical? Is that even possible? 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z “He lied,” he would say about Mr. Trump, dropping his voice into a minor key. Where the Promise of Bernie Sanders Goes Now 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Using an analogy learned from a fourth-grade student, Olsen said a minor key is like when it’s dark and rainy outside. Fremont men team up on songwriting 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z “I don’t like to play in minor keys,” he says. Eli Winter: discover the young folk guitarist making sense of loss 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z The music turns to minor keys and becomes contemplative, even mournful. Opinion | Want to Get Into the Christmas Spirit? Face the Darkness 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Poudrier notes that one of the musical features the researchers mapped to behavioral contexts was whether the song was in a major or minor key. What Makes a Song? It’s the Same Recipe in Every Culture 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The mood music on the Welsh Government's preferred black route changed from a major to a minor key when Mark Drakeford was elected as Welsh Labour leader in December. M4 relief road expected to be dropped 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z It’s actually the only Beethoven concerto in a minor key, and that’s why the beginning is very dramatic. How the L.A. Phil turned Beethoven’s piano concerto marathon into a relay 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Mid90s is a similar melody, but played in a minor key. Jonah Hill: ‘I am serious. If I deny that I’ll go crazy’ 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z And what we think of as classical harmony, with major and minor keys and chords that follow the bass line, didn’t emerge until the Renaissance. Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z It starts with an elegiac sweep of strings, softly playing in a minor key, before chirruping into birdsong, and then back to ambient strings. Pet sounds: why your dog loves listening to Bob Marley 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z But while Honey is sung in a trademark melancholy minor key, she’s clearly fed up of being “in the corner / watching you kiss her,” and so on. 50 great tracks for October from Noname, Julia Holter, Objekt and more 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z So looking at how Spotify's computers "hear" her work, they would classify it as getting "sadder" over time, with slower songs and more minor keys being used. Madonna at 60: The Queen of Pop in seven charts 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Such talk, however, lasted only a year or two and always in a minor key before being relegated to Washington’s attic. American wars and self-decline: How the last superpower was unchained 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z But their confrontations with age and mortality remain tremendously moving, in a minor key: How Philip Roth wrote America 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Eurovision winners are twice as likely to be in a minor key. What makes a Eurovision winner? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z “Kosher. Gluten free! And redolent of vanilla, bold, yet indecisive. Flirty on the palate. With a minor key of beehive buzz.” Not a Bourbon Drinker? This One Might Change Your Mind 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Her goal is to make the brain more flexible and play more than just songs in minor keys. The rapper Dessa scanned her brain to fall out of love 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z How to sort the major and minor keys, “all at once on top of each other”? Grandpop, speaking as much for the playwriting as for himself, explains, “It’s about untying the knot.” In 'Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue,' the silent pain of war echoes through three generations 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z As the daughter put it: “I enjoyed the evil minor key and the cheerful flutes. Overall, it was incredibly sweet to the ear.” Opera's awful role models and the #MeToo moment 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z An organist played eerie minor key chords and Alexandra turned to face the group. A new generation of L.A. Satanists finds community in blasphemous times 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z It remains one masterful control freak’s riveting portrait of another, a major achievement in a disturbingly minor key. Criterion revives a chilling tune with Michael Haneke's 'The Piano Teacher' 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Bejo, best known stateside for her performance as the aptly named Peppy in “The Artist,” works here in a minor key to eloquent effect. Divorce, French-style, in the gripping domestic drama 'After Love' 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z For all that his catalogue is full up to that Stetson brim with sad songs, Williams only released one record written entirely in a minor key. Hank Williams – 10 of the best 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z "I do my makeup in somebody else's car," she sings over a minor key piano. All you need to know about Lorde's new single, Green Light - BBC News 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s a very simple song with simple chords, although a minor key puts a fly in the ointment. It's Christmas! The best festive songs, chosen by Slade, Neil Diamond, the Waitresses and more 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Visibly buoyed, he followed that with “Love Yourself,” which he’d cleverly transposed to a minor key. How Justin Bieber turned KIIS-FM's Jingle Ball into an acoustic jam session 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Elsewhere on “The Donkey and the Rose” the artist is more contemplative, and she uses her pitch-perfect tone to explore minor key heartbreak and other earthly concerns. California Sounds: Hear new music from Jahkoy, Leslie Stevens and Lustmord 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The first line begins in a minor key. Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The dystopian portrait of the country under Mrs. Clinton is reinforced by a syncopated piano, softly tracking along in a minor key. Depicting a Country Sitting on the Brink 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z In particular, Sting processed The Beatles' "Girl" and Astor Piazzolla's "Libertango" similarly; the release explains both songs "are in minor keys and include similar melodic motifs." Music Superstar Sting Got His Brain Scanned By Neuroscientists 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z A high-pitched flute in a minor key accompanies a new ad from the Rebuilding America Now “super PAC.” Biggest Ads of the Campaign So Far: The Convention Videos 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z Iommi was one of the creators of the heavy metal sound, taking the blues as the musical base but tuning his guitar down to a dark minor key with intense distortion. Black Sabbath postpone shows on final tour after Ozzy Osbourne falls ill 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Alongside genre products with little chance of survival, it included works written with great skill but in a minor key, novels that dealt with private, not public, life. Elizabeth Jane Howard: Hilary Mantel on the novelist she tells everyone to read 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Why music in a major key sounds happier than music in a minor key, however, remains a mystery. Every Song Has Its Own Color and Emotion 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z He speaks of songs in terms of major and minor keys, prehooks and hooks and bridges. Can the Weeknd Turn Himself Into the Biggest Pop Star in the World? 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z It’s a pulse of minor key chords as pink beads bubble up in Budapest’s art nouveau Gellert baths. Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle: 9 hours of 'challenging' art on film 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Just keep the sesame oil in a minor key. A Taste of Taiwan 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z The spirit of Clive James was as undimmed, and as witty as ever, but his tempo was rallentando, not rubato, conducted in a minor key of reflective and poignant sweetness. Seriously ill Clive James puts in a bravura performance at London literary festival – 'I'd love to go on like this' 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z So we came up with a blues in a minor key. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant: how we made Led Zeppelin III 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z That is a hopeful prospect, and so — in a much more minor key — is Pyeonchang’s centralized attempt to put the accent on atmosphere. Inside the Rings: South Korea Awaits 2018 Games With a Different Plan 2014-02-24T16:55:41Z Responding to readers' queries, Sheppard says the arrangement of God Save the Queen is not in a minor key. Blue tongues and 19 other Olympic oddities 2012-08-09T23:57:23Z But then, in a minor key, they did. Britain's Living Legacy to the Games: Sports 2012-07-27T07:17:18Z Before I had time to answer it came the second in a minor key. A Soldier's Son 2012-04-27T02:00:37.640Z In point of fact, when we execute a movement in a major key on our reflected piano, we hear a sound in a minor key, and vice versa. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z I am now modulating into the minor key, a fault with which the "�cole Allemande" are often reproached, and as I profess not to belong to the latter, the French say I am cosmopolite. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z At almost every venue, some parts of it are being played in the minor key. Blue tongues and 19 other Olympic oddities 2012-08-09T23:57:23Z It was the air of a comic song, in a minor key, and its inflections were those of a funeral march. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z There are many such sentences, beginning with the word Now-a-days and sounding like a chant on a minor key. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z The harmony suffers a transposition from a major into a minor key and vice versa. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z And, behold, he brought them back to her veiled in silver minor keys, borne on palanquins of rhythmic harmonies, regal, measured, stately, like the young sisters of a queen. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z The religious “tone” is a part of the song, and both words and music conform to the minor key. Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z Not but what it has charms of its own: a plaintive sweetness set in a minor key. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z His individuality had slipped into the minor key. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z The transposition from a major to a minor key is the sole indication of symmetry remaining. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Poems can be written in major or minor keys, can be as full of dominant motif as a Wagner music-drama, and even susceptible of fugal treatment. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z It was a melody well known to all Greeks, but transposed from the major to the minor key. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z These wassailing folk were generally known as “howlers”; “doubtless rightly,” says a Sussex archæologist, “for real old Sussex music is in a minor key, and can hardly be distinguished from howling.” The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z All these things affected her spirits to some extent, so that the Journal for the remainder of 1867 is in a minor key. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z It is sung by Israelites almost in despair beneath usurping tyranny; and accordingly it is a severe double fugue in a minor key, expressive of devout courage at a moment of depression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z After a few moments L'Tunga began to vary the whistling with a sort of chant in a minor key. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z If in a minor key, Scott’s opinion resonated with some of his teammates. Is Jets-Giants a Rivalry Game? 2011-12-21T01:50:28Z The most intensely comic thing ever wrought by the hand of Cruikshank is, I think, by the absolute perfection of its reasoning a priori, a genuine "carroll" in a minor key. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z The music is all fearful and threatening, with creeping chromatics shrouded in a minor key. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z When Handel wrote a normal double fugue in a minor key on the word “Hallelujah” he showed that he at all events knew what a vigorous and dignified thing an 18th-century double fugue could be. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The demented old woman played on in a wailing minor key, and presently footsteps were heard coming down the hall. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z It is written throughout in the minor key, and the atmosphere of melancholy envelops it with as much natural charm as though it were a beautiful piece of music. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z But there is too much to say, and I am able, in this minor key, to say too little. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z The prelude opens in the minor key with a group of octaves erect and solemn as pine trees. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z He used to sing: in a minor key, with the true, God-fearing, nasal twang in it. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Two Preludes through all the major and minor keys, for piano or organ; composed 1789. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z It was the pouring forth of song from a poetic spirit, that as yet knew not the power of the minor key. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z Life for Mrs. Wiley had gone mainly in a minor key composed largely of sharps, and as a consequence she sighed frequently and sighed even now. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z I gave the Canada-sparrow call in the minor key—as often the bird whistles—and, at the signal, all my scouts came creeping in. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Some of these emotions are experienced in a minor key when playing the short game, as we call it, particularly in finely-made pitching strokes with iron clubs. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z Anything to lift this duet of theirs out of the minor key! The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z And then you subsided into a minor key, and allowed yourself to be put in the corner. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z But the pathetic minor key of her untrained and as yet unfound voice Bess thought the sweetest music in the world. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z Of the top 10 most successful songs of all time, only Kanye West's Gold Digger is in a minor key. Behind the music: How to write a hit song 2011-07-14T15:32:15Z As he stooped to pick yet another flower more perfect than the last, he was accosted with the words, "Good-day, Stranger!" spoken in a soft minor key. The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west 2011-07-03T02:00:11.037Z Then the tones of the air which Gemsbok so often had played upon the ramkee were slowly wailed out from the strings in a minor key. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z And in the wet places the deep-voiced frogs gave tongue in many minor keys. Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans 2011-06-14T02:00:19.177Z Rutland's music was generally in a minor key. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z The fourth book closes, as it began, in a minor key, leaving the reader, like Peona, in a mood rather musing than rejoicing. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Kent’s face, in the light, was very downcast, but from the far corner of his mouth came the faintest ghost of a whistled melody—all in a minor key. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z His music now was all in a minor key; no more reels and jigs that made one long to caper. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z Once they had gathered there the Weird 110 Sisters entertained them with a spirited dance about the kettle, to the accompaniment of an unearthly chant, pitched in a minor key. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z “Lost Bohemia” plays in a distinctly minor key. City Room: Carnegie's Ousted Residents Agree: Film Has Sad Ending 2011-05-30T13:00:30Z Very sad and melancholy as a rule, in a minor key. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z Even before I knew how to use my tongue, my ear appreciated the difference between the major and the minor key. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z It opens in the minor key with a strongly marked theme, rather in the nature of a fanfare; this is followed by a very beautiful Schumannesque syncopated passage. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z It lets the U.S. participate, but in a minor key. U.S. and British Missiles Pound Libya 2011-03-20T00:05:04Z It looks to me as if the trees have crape wound round their tops and the birds sing in a minor key and the people stare at me with earnest and sympathetic eyes. My Little Boy 2011-03-12T03:00:27.087Z There is many a strain of music that beginning in a minor key changes to major only to close softly and sweetly in minor tones. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z They tell me that hearing some one in the street—some beggar, doubtless—singing a song in a minor key, I asked my mother why he sang "as if he were crying." Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Now all this is comedy, of course, but Wedekind is not to be deprived of his predelection for the minor key. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z I sometimes hear them sing, and the strain is generally in a minor key; but I cannot succeed in detecting or retaining an entire or distinct tune. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z Even so it was not customary to use every one of the twenty-four major and minor keys. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z Between, the lights of divers craft twinkled like fireflies, and tootings of major and minor keys with varying volume of sound went wailing through the night. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Most of the Basque songs, except the drinking ones, are set, more or less, in a minor key. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z A song in a minor key, it mourns a loss but moves with an up-tempo beat, the sound of relief or escape, of a future life somewhere else. Big City: From Silence, Songs About the Holocaust 2010-09-21T02:57:00Z Some haunting harmonica music in a minor key might be an appropriate theme for the Friday broadcast. We Interrupt This Event for a Word From Woods 2010-02-19T06:47:00Z The remoteness of the ecclesiastical modes from our twenty-four major and minor keys renders them particularly appropriate to the service of religion. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z A single chord of music in a minor key floated across the room, soft at first, swelling later into a volume of sound, then dying away and ceasing altogether. The Hillman When Mrs Craigie returned, she found him sufficiently revived to jest again, though in a minor key. The Spy in Black Presently his face cleared, and he began to whistle in a plaintive minor key. Into the Primitive His mood changed a little, the excitement gradually subsided; thought shifted to a minor key, subdued by the beauty of the southern night. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath Chanting commences: slow and solemn and in the minor key. Glories of Spain As soon as she had gone Lionel's face lost something of its optimism, and he began to whistle a tune in a minor key. The Gay Adventure A Romance From these she drifted gradually into music more in accordance with her mood, playing in a mournful, minor key, until Mr. Gilbert could endure the saddening sweetness no longer. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir There was, now and then, a gentle and minor key, as if a glimpse of something purer and higher passed through these rough lads. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them His song is sometimes in a minor key, plangent and piercing; sometimes in a large and virile major,—as for instance when he sings the 'War-song of Gamelba.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII It was a weird plantation refrain in the minor key. A Daughter of the Union "Self-esteem" would blow its own trumpet, of course; the want of it being expressed by transition to a minor key. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) As a rule, however, Brusca's manifestations, whether of pleasure or the reverse, were uttered in a minor key and unaccompanied by any change of position on her part. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections The voice starts in minor key, a gray monotone, in harmony with the absence of color in the bare bank of dull moss. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation Most of their music is in the weird, plaintive minor key that seems spontaneous with primitive people throughout the world. Our Southern Highlanders Paul, too, listened; and close at hand he heard, to his surprise, the muffled sound of voices chanting some sad hymn in a deep minor key. A Monk of Cruta Altogether it is pitched in a minor key. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land “But you ought to see her at home,” interjected Müller, in a minor key of disdain. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day All the peasantry in Mallorca seem to know one tune and one only, in a minor key, with a compass of three whole tones. The Recipe for Diamonds The voices of the highland women, low toned by habit, often are singularly sweet, being pitched in a sad, musical, minor key. Our Southern Highlanders The curious modulations which followed aroused me, and I soon busied myself in tracing the changes from major to minor, and from one minor key to another, as sorrows chase each other in life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 Booker, is a war poem in minor key, which deserves much praise. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 It is a very long-drawn cry, beginning away down in the bass, dragging up slowly to an anguished treble note in a very minor key, and subsiding, despairingly, about half-way back to the bass. Finn The Wolfhound A most forlorn tune it was, ending in a dreary minor key, and it lasted for months and months—at least the children said it did. The Adventures of A Brownie As Told to My Child by Miss Mulock Why is your life pitched in such a minor key? Carmen Ariza The plaint of the wood pewee, pensive and like a human sigh, is far from pessimistic, although in a minor key. Under the Maples The Tenth Commandment makes her domestic property, and Paul winds up by telling her that her sole duty is to play second fiddle in a minor key. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) I once had a dog who would generally sleep on hearing music, but the moment I played in the minor key he would bark piteously. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 We have only to reflect upon the fact that separation without death produces the same effects in a minor key, to realize the evolutionary value of death. Elementary Theosophy Here and there a terrible wailing minor key would tremble through the chords like the shriek of sea-birds, or the warning of advancing death. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories He does not like to hear any one play the piano in a minor key. Harper's Young People, June 1, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly They have a strange preference for the minor key in music, for the dirge. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China This is a picture painted in England for Lord Egremont, and is mentioned in Leslie's Recollections, by the editor of that work, in a minor key of praise. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 The inscription, I would submit, is too much in the "minor key." Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Do you mean to say," said the latter, "that the hymn-writers do not use the minor key? Nobody But I can listen, as long as musicians will perform, to those infinite repetitions, that insistent sounding of the minor key. All About Coffee Very nice months they were—only one cloud worth mention in the blue; only one phrase in a minor key. Somehow Good These he executed quite as inaccurately, but—and this was some relief—in minor key. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 While the girl hesitated on the threshold, Desmond struck a succession of soft chords in a minor key; and she stood spellbound, determined to hear more. Captain Desmond, V.C. This is called a Kaluri, and although possessing but five separate notes in a minor key, the tone is not unmusical, though very melancholy. On the Equator Venus was a riot of colors, all in a minor key: muted greens and reds, an overbearing gray, a strange, ghostly blue. Starman's Quest Even with a person who has no technical knowledge of music, the effect of the minor key is unmistakably different from the major. The Enjoyment of Art It is lovely rather than beautiful, and is a sort of gentle prelude, in the minor key, to the coming glories and intenser charms of Loch Ard and the true Highlands beyond. Spare Hours He was chanting something in a minor key, while the sentry at the gates stood at salute. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse It may not be long before he will hear that “a color note has been pitched too high,” or that a certain artist “paints in a minor key.” A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma Then mould' his form with most artistic ease— But all aeolian strains Blind Tom could scan, And play as softly as the South Sea breeze Upon his major and his minor keys! The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse The music was weird and in a minor key. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk And now our songs are minor key, And now in merry tune; The windward side will change to lee, And January to June. Christmas Roses A few chords in a minor key floated through the drawing room, and Edie shivered. Witness to the Deed Negative testimony is like the minor key in music. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 They are mostly in the minor key, and some of them might almost be called monotonous; yet it is monotony, or rather simplicity, in the notation, which sticks to the memory. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland This general's letters to his ever confident relative, Henry Dundas, at Whitehall, were always in a minor key. William Pitt and the Great War His song was very different from that of the robin, and consisted of five or six notes, regularly descending in minor key. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Then the watch proceed to haul, with weird, wild cries in minor keys that rise and fall and rise again, like the long-drawn soughing of the wind itself. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways Starting eastward from their bases in northern California, Oregon and Washington, in military formation, singing triumphantly in minor keys, the Slavic steamroller had presented an imposing sight. Greener Than You Think Goldsmith overworked the minor key, but Burke merely suggests that it had not been omitted. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators "I should like it of all things," replied Titus, who entertained a very favorable opinion of Jack's vocal powers, and was by no means an indifferent performer; "only let it be in a minor key." Rookwood His voice had that minor key which touches the chords of tenderness and feeling—that voice so sweet at the fireside, so adapted to poetry and all deep and earnest thoughts. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Now listen with bated breath to that recitative in the minor key,—that passionate wail, that touching story, the gypsies’ own music, which rises and falls on the air. The Gypsies Sung in a plaintive minor key, and in a wild, irregular rhythm, the dirge was far more impressive than the words would indicate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 She played in a minor key an air to the words of Tennyson's matchless piece of pathos, — "The days that are no more," accompanying herself with a voice rich, strong, and sweet. The Old Folks' Party 1898 They march round in a circle, beating these and singing a very simple melody in a minor key on four notes. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II They seem to have had only the minor key, and to have known no more of counterpoint than they did of perspective. Gryll Grange Tregelly turned his back, began to whistle softly an old tune in a minor key, and drew the coffee, the bacon pan, and the bread a little farther away. To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze As good specimens of what he has accomplished in the minor key, we may instance "The Expected Ship," "The Story of Life," and "Pan Immortal." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 It was in a minor key, and anything more depressing it was impossible to conceive. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai To Aleck’s astonishment he had begun to whistle a dismal old air in a minor key after propping himself across the rough crack so that he could not slip. The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap I must demur to their having only the minor key. Gryll Grange As for Smith, he seemed to be still half-asleep, and he sat up, staring blankly at the performer, who kept on howling—I can call it nothing else—in the most doleful of minor keys. Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser While, in the minor key, their songs extol The victor Love, and life's sweet blandishments, Their looks belie the burden of their lays, The songs that mingle with the still moon-beams. Silverpoints Try to forget that ‘sad’ rhymes with ‘glad,’ and don’t feel it necessary to end in the minor key. Big Game A Story for Girls They had been singing softly in a minor key, but gradually the singing turned to talk. Just Patty Like all traditional tunes, some shanties are in the ancient modes, and others in the modern major and minor keys. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties On the way to his apartment Mr. Pilkington continued in the minor key. Jill the Reckless Wotton's account of her accomplishments was pitched in a minor key. Henry VIII. It was somewhat puzzling to determine whether the tones which this man sang were related to each other as five and three of the major key, or as three and one of the minor key. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula There was a grand wedding in Venice in 1595, at which the music consisted of madrigals, all in slow time and minor key. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Like many other folk-songs, certain shanties—originally, no doubt, in a mode—were, by the insertion of leading notes, converted into the minor key. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties He gave his moustache a pull, and reverted to the minor key. Jill the Reckless They sing in a minor key, but yet not mournfully. Strife and Peace "Don't let him jolly you, Hoggy, old boy," sang the class in an immaculate minor key. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques He was a tall, gaunt, sallow man of about thirty, with small gray eyes, a fine, falsetto voice, pitched in the minor key, and his speech the rude dialect of the mountains. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 There was also the tendency on the part of the modern sailor to turn his minor key into a major one. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties The second-sight with which the hero, David Holst, is afflicted, introduces an undertone of sadness—a pensive minor key—and seems to necessitate the tragic dénouement. Essays on Scandinavian Literature That is the keynote of the old melancholy Indian music; the bass, whose undertone accompanies, with a kind of monotonous solemnity, all the treble variations in the minor key. Bubbles of the Foam Their lives are altogether more happy, although their songs, full of deep feeling, and not without a vein of romance are, like those of all Sclavs, plaintive and in the minor key. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers She sang all the melancholy songs she knew, in a mournful, minor key, until the conversation of the other two ceased, and they felt as dismal as herself. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel To show the practicability of equal temperament Bach wrote a series of 48 preludes and fugues, two in each major and two in each minor key. Music Notation and Terminology The emotions are fully expressed in the musical rendering of the several classes of songs, which are, with few exceptions, in a minor key. The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 Its voice has messages nor words for me, All, all is pitched in one low minor key. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 And then, in a weird, wild, melancholy minor key came the story of the Kali-Yug—the age of darkness creeping over India, condemning her for her sins. Caves of Terror Nevertheless, it is noteworthy that the "Happy New Year!" is never sounded out in the minor key; always it has a ring of joyousness and hope in it. Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Major and minor keys having the same tonic, but different signatures, should be called tonic major and minor. Music Notation and Terminology The lines, as usual, are repeated ad libitum, the music being limited to but few notes, and in a minor key. The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 The hoarse sound of the short German bugles pierces the night with four lugubrious notes in a minor key, funereal, deathly. The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 The quality of the music is soft and melancholy, wholly in minor keys and of no great range, probably not exceeding one octave. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir He inherited that national melancholy of the Poles which causes them even to dance to tunes in minor keys, and which is commonly attributed to the long-continued political oppression under which they have suffered. Chopin and Other Musical Essays Their rude chant or rhythmic shouting is in the minor key. The Delight Makers There is a minor key of loneliness and heart hunger running through his whole career. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Their songs are both cheerful and plaintive; but the latter predominate, and are mainly in the minor key. The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea It is haunted by one exquisite air, repeated, fading into variations, then rising once more only to sink into the tender sorrow of a minor key. Dead Man's Rock There came as she spoke, a buzz of other voices, issuing from another mill just before them; voices trained in the higher notes, and knowing little of the minor key. Wych Hazel He was still staring when something, singing a little, high-pitched song in a minor key to itself, came romping through the silent air, and, with an oddly emphasized and emphatic "phtt!" landed between his feet. The Way of the Wild It is the book of Ecclesiastes over again, written in a minor key, with a little harmless gossip added for filling. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Until this time the melody has been a slow and dirge-like stave in the minor key. Great Italian and French Composers For a time French landscape was pitched in a minor key. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture The letter is like a passage from one of Shakespeare's sonnets transposed to a minor key. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 And wanderers, now, within that alley Through the half-open shutters see, Old crones, that talk continually In a discordant minor key: p. The Scarlet Gown being verses by a St. Andrews Man Almost all their songs were thoroughly religious in their tone, however quaint their expression, and were in a minor key both as to words and music. The Colored Regulars in the United States Army I sing with a voice too low To be heard beyond to-day, In minor keys of my people's woe, But my songs will pass away. Literary Hearthstones of Dixie Then, after a long, pregnant pause—the culminating silence of defeat—the original melody stole out once more, repeated in a minor key, hollow and denuded. The Moon out of Reach One man wanted to have the Marseillaise in a minor key. Musical Memories The air was in the minor key, the voice of the singer thrilled to the very nerves, every word came distinctly to their ears. Tales from Many Sources Vol. V The company broke into a wild chant in a minor key, commencing on a high note and descending the whole gamut, with strange pauses, lifts and falls. The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest This is concerned with the treatment of the minor key. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students As a poet in the minor key, he was tolerable, but as a prose writer, he was a very dull person and a bore. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century In order to give this fanfare its grandiose character, the author did not take easy refuge in the wailings of a minor key, but he burst into the splendors of a major key. Musical Memories Altogether in spite of himself, his voice trailed off into a suspiciously minor key. The Indiscreet Letter Ethelwyn, who loved kittens devotedly, was melted to the verge of tears by his wailing appeals in a minor key; so she cuddled him and fed him on Lady Babby's creamy, foamy milk. What Two Children Did When singing in major keys the pupils are told to refer all notes to the key-note for 'mental effect', but in the minor key this is strictly forbidden. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students Then we are nerved and braced; we hear no minor key in the voice of the departing day. Catharine He had a monotonous inflection and rather chanted in a minor key than spoke. The Spinners I can never picture to you the rich red nose, the see sawing gestures, the nasal resonance, the sniffle, the melancholy minor key, and all that. The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana After a little while the last two notes in the minor key will be heard and then all is still. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians The method evolved for the minor key by those who wish to uphold the fundamental principle of the key-note being the pivot of reference for all keys, major and minor, is a very simple one. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students The melody was in a minor key and full of weird pathos. The Redemption of David Corson Nothing is, Out in the vast immensities Where these things flit, Irrequisite In a minor key To the tune of the sempiternal It. A Christmas Garland But in a major, not in a minor key; of strong, not of weak passions. Tragic Sense Of Life This consists of four notes uttered in a major key, then a short pause lasting but a few seconds, followed by another four notes in the corresponding minor key. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians This end will be attained by deferring the use of bridge-notes until the children are ready to sing melodies in the minor keys which modulate to the relative major. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students He did not stress the profits to be made from investment in the stock of his corporation, but referred to them in a minor key. Certain Success It is the latter, the Teutonic, that is in the minor key, and full of wistful sadness. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 His fingers wandered over the lower register, improvising, modulating from one minor key to another in a cobweb of silver harmony spun pale and low from a minimum of technical attention. Nightfall Would the altitude or the situation account for its minor key? In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs If the above-mentioned plan for the treatment of the minor key be adopted, bridge-notes will be essential at this stage, and the melodies, at any rate at first, cannot be sung without their aid. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students From Humphreys, who had put himself into a delicate minor key, Mrs. Anderson got such an account of the conversation as he thought best to give. The End of the World A Love Story Throughout also there are pen-pictures of Russian scenery, full of vivid colour; while the story itself, though inevitably in a somewhat minor key, is never sordid or pessimistic. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 That part of him that was French—a species of volatile sentimentality—sounded in the words like the echo of a laugh in a minor key. Charles Rex And very like it, though in a minor key, is the Elegy which begins, 'A tender, youthful trouble.' The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Later on they will learn that these notes often introduce modulations to the dominant, subdominant, and relative minor keys respectively. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students But at any rate let us not have a preface in the minor key. The End of the World A Love Story Absolute truth to nature is impossible in art, which is constrained to lie to the eye in order to satisfy the mind, and continually transposes the harmonies of earth and sky into the minor key. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884 Their favourite melodies are mostly in a minor key, and they dislike noisy music; indeed, noise of any sort. A Trip to Venus Discords were depressing; most, but not all, major keys were stimulating; and most, but not all, minor keys depressing. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man For those between eight and twelve sight-singing in minor keys and in two parts should be added, also the dictation of melodies and of two-part tunes. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students The minor key, in which Poe thought all true poetry is written, is struck in these his earlier novels. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Despite the playful irony of his poem, there is in the minor key an undertone of genuine sorrow. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems Then, as these supple strains of passionate emotion ceased, the soul that spoke returned upon itself; the musician passed from the major to the minor key, and told her hearer the story of her present. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 The case was subsequently reported of a child in whom night-terrors were eased by calming music in a minor key. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man It is essential to read carefully the appendices to this work, especially that concerned with the minor keys. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students Far from it: he was very modest—diffident, in fact—and his song was quite in the minor key, but still the chain-shot and bombs of literary warfare were sent hissing in his direction. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great I could hear two distant snorings in major and minor keys. The "Goldfish" There were few, however, who did not recognize the strong, sweet alto which ran through each melody like a minor key. A Young Girl's Wooing Esther usually sang melancholy things in minor keys. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People The various minor keys should then be taken in the same order as that in which the major keys were taken. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students But Hester Bevins would not let herself be gainsaid, sobbing a little, elbowing her way through the group of mental unborns, and leaving me to blow my pitch pipe for a minor key. The Vertical City If much of the song is in the minor key, it had to be so: these Sketches are from real life, and "all lives are tragedies." California Sketches, Second Series I'll sing exaltedly no more, But sadly in a minor key Will tell what fortune had in store For me. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 11, 1890 The notes were upside down in her sight, and her voice sought strange minor keys unconsciously, as she vainly tried to concentrate her attention upon what she was doing. A Roman Singer Also that if in a minor key taw occurs in an ascending scale passage, or is taken or left by leap, it is a sign of a modulation to the relative major. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students Another means by which he sought, consciously or unconsciously, to produce unity of impression was by consistently pitching his song in the minor key. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England There is a total absence of the garish coloring which has become so common, the religious subjects being without exception in a minor key, usually soft grays and blues. Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. After dark they kindled fires, and sat beside them singing songs in a strange minor key and strumming guitars. Through the Brazilian Wilderness It is in a minor key and very doleful. Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People Children often forget that the leading note in a minor key invariably carries an accidental. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students On the other hand, in spite of a certain allegrezza in the handling, and in spite of the Rosalind wound being at least partially healed, the same minor key prevails as in the earlier poems. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England With that, the two aged Christians struck up a sweet Wesleyan melody; and that, too, was in the same soft minor key that Fred had heard singing through the gas-burner. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 And unto those who wish from me to know what will the ending be of my august biography, I answer in a minor key and classic language, "Wait and see!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 22, 1919 While the chief priest was going through a ritual his deputies chanted mournful and monotonous strains in a minor key--repetitions of the same lines over and over again. Modern India I sing with a voice too low To be heard beyond to-day, In minor keys of my people's woe, But my songs pass away. Poems: Patriotic, Religious We take all things in a minor key as we grow older. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow That little ballad in the minor key beginning, Touch us gently, Time! Ponkapog Papers They would have despised a life set wholly in a minor key, and summoned it to keep within the proper bounds of lachrymosity. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature His music was in a minor key now. The Song of the Cardinal But, oh! if in song or speech, In major or minor key, My voice could over the ages reach, I would whisper the name of Lee. Poems: Patriotic, Religious Most of its stories are composed in a minor key, a tone of subdued pathos—pathos marking both the nature and limit of Anderson's talent. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Music nearly always puts me into the minor key; so there came a time when I could stand it no longer, and I set off to find my way back to my lodgings. The Stark Munro Letters Roderick's humor, for the time, was pitched in a minor key; he was lazy, listless, and melancholy, but he had never been more friendly and kindly and appealingly submissive. Roderick Hudson She is a marked feature everywhere in military stations, alike in the camp and the field, and her bray always in the minor key, gives a touch of pathos to the music of the band! The Woman's Bible He had once more the feeling of living—of living, though in a minor key. The Pawns Count They play slowly—very softly and in the minor key. The Price of Things When he came to the words "the East," his voice dropped to a sad minor key, as if the man despaired of the fate of those who took their departure in that direction. In the Midst of Alarms He never sang in a minor key when any one was by, but always and solely when the baby and he were alone together. A Rough Shaking There was a banshee wailing about my quarters in a minor key, very flat, last night. The Heavenly Twins The entire thing seemed to have been "written in a minor key," of infinite world-embracing pathos. A Columbus of Space Related to this in minor key is the doubtful condition of mind where the individual has to do things several times before he is sure they are properly done. Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency But the celebration of victory was in minor key. The Man in Gray The richest and grandest music of the world is hitherto in a minor key. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis The ethics open with six metrical strophes composed, so to say, in the minor key, which harmonises with the disheartening conclusions of the foregoing. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur A style like Verlaine's, which is non-sequent, macerated, free, is indispensable to any mastery of the rhetoric of the minor key. Youth and Egolatry Note the lowliness, the suffering, the minor key of it all, and then, all at once, the leap up to rapture and triumph. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah After some time the music changed, and ran into a plaintive strain, in a minor key. The Crayon Papers He picked up his brushes, spoke in a sad minor key, and seemed crushed and weary. Lying Prophets Madame's welcome of the captured, after such an affront, was set in the minor key; and her smile was the smile of a suffering angel. In and out of Three Normady Inns A modern poet, in my opinion, has illustrated this rhetoric of the minor key to perfection. Youth and Egolatry There is a curious melancholy in national music which is generally in the minor key; indeed this holds good with the music of savage races generally. The Pleasures of Life At his best, his lyrics written in the minor key have a noble, solemn adagio movement. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century It begins, and for the first half continues, in a very minor key. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms He entered the room with gloomy looks; and made his polite inquiries, as became a depressed musician, in the minor key. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time On the other hand, the rhetoric of the minor key, which seems poor at first blush, soon reveals itself to be more attractive. Youth and Egolatry I sing with a voice too low To be heard beyond to-day, In minor keys of my people's woe, But my songs pass away. Poets of the South Pitched in a minor key sounds roll along with little friction and waste, whereas a louder, shriller stinging note may find in the still air a less pliant medium. My Tropic Isle The Psalmist begins in a very minor key. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Much of it is in minor keys, and a strain of plaintiveness mingles with all its majesty and power. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young One of the peculiarities of the buffalo is its voice, which is quite low, and in the minor key, resembling that of a young colt. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes When the concert of life is playing the gayest and airiest music, it requires only the change of a little flat or sharp to modulate into the minor key. Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England The greatest tragedies are not written in these minor keys. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917 The tunes were many and seemingly familiar, all barbaric, often ending in the minor key, and reminding us much, perhaps too much, of the old Gregorian tones. At Last Here we come into a minor key," he said, speaking obviously and exclusively to Gracie; "this is Avery when she is cross and inclined to be down on a fellow. The Bars of Iron We are getting into the minor key again, I thought. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 Forward the ship's bell sounded two double strokes, then a single, followed by a wail in minor key: "Five bells and all's well!" Alias the Lone Wolf He whistled a popular melody of the day three times as slowly as its talented composer had originally intended it to be whistled, and in a strange minor key. The Pothunters As he stood there pawing the mat impatiently, and mewing in a minor key, Mrs Williamson felt that here was the cat for her. Tales of St. Austin's He gave his mustache a pull, and reverted to the minor key. The Little Warrior Almost all their songs were thoroughly religious in their tone, however quaint then: expression, and were in a minor key, both as to words and music. Army Life in a Black Regiment It was a woman's voice, old and quavering, and the song was a weird, almost unearthly, chant or dirge in a minor key. Old Mission Stories of California Webb saw and heard all that passed, but in a minor key thoughts like these were forming themselves with little volition on his part, and were symptoms which as yet he did not understand. Nature's Serial Story When the emotions became too intangible for intellectual expression I asked my friend the musician to insert paragraphs in a minor key. Without Prejudice On the way to his apartment Mr Pilkington continued in the minor key. The Little Warrior Then Bel changed the tune; retaining the same minor key, however. From Jest to Earnest Mr. Brookes occasionally lamented in a minor key, but without having recourse to his handkerchief. Spring Days Nature, however, is a harmony of many and varied strains, and the unhappy are always conscious of a deep minor key even on the brightest days. Nature's Serial Story Miss Eulie sang a sweet though rather faint alto that was like a low minor key in a happy life. Opening a Chestnut Burr The men are standing up swinging in rhythmic motion their long, rich red wood paddles in perfect time to their elaborate melancholy, minor key boat song. Travels in West Africa "Ah!" whines another in a minor key, "The loaf's in out; pray spare a slice for me." The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry Then, in the priest's language, which none—and least of all a Risaldar—can understand except the priests themselves, he began to shout directions, pitching his voice into a high, wailing, minor key. Told in the East Even in her dreams there was a minor key of trouble and dread. Nature's Serial Story Chopin, adopting the relative minor key as a pendant to the picture in B flat, thrills the nerves by a bold dissonance in the next prelude, No. 22. Chopin : the Man and His Music The bystanders joined in the song; an interminable recitative, as usual, in the minor key, and—Orientals are admirable timists—it sounded like one voice. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 Then, gradually, the song ran into a minor key, as Thorir's pitiful crew landed upon the sand. The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days It alternates with a Recitative, which assumes a minor key, and which seems to be its Antistrophe. Life of Chopin His laugh hereafter could never be so light and careless to her but that, like a minor key, would run the thought, "He risked his life for me; he might have died for me." Nature's Serial Story Kleczynski then tells us that a Polish proverb, "A fig for misery," is the keynote of a nation that dances furiously to music in the minor key. Chopin : the Man and His Music A woman, one would have said, who could act as nobly as she could speak, yet who would prefer both to live and to express herself in a minor key. Thyrza Especially to the American sense did their humorous and comic strokes, their negro-minstrelsy and attempts at Yankee comedy, seem in a minor key. Winter Sunshine It is sometimes sung in very dramatic fashion, the performer acting the principal incidents and pitching his voice in a doleful, though musical, minor key. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo At nightfall a five-holed flute was heard behind the trees in the island, playing several airs in a minor key. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon "In the minor key laughs and cries, dances and mourns the Slav," says Dr. J. Schucht in his monograph on Chopin. Chopin : the Man and His Music As it is, they're a strain of melancholy poetry in my life, of music in the minor key. An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga Alas! that the flesh should be so full of color and charm and seduction, while the spirit is pale, colorless, and set to music in a minor key! Phyllis of Philistia Now it falls into th' minor key, and must be very sad-like. Mary Barton The silence of night was only interrupted by the cries of the "morepork" in the minor key, like the mournful cuckoos of Europe. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant It whistled and shrieked in minor keys, dying away at brief intervals to come again with a rush and roar. Lahoma And he never tired of a set of stanzas in the minor key beginning: "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Sheila surveys him with pride and then takes the wail up in a minor key. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed They kept up an undertone of humming in a minor key; occasionally breaking into a short musical phrase in full voice. The Land of Footprints They seem sad even in their sports; their songs, almost without exception, are in the minor key; the whole atmosphere is apparently charged with vague dread of some calamity. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 His fondness for poetry in the minor key has become a byword, especially the line "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud." Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War |
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