minor scale

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   a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th

   Synonymsminor diatonic scale

   Broadermode

Questions about minor scale

What does minor scale mean?

minor scale means "a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 2nd and 3rd and 5th and 6th".

What is another word for minor scale?

Close synonyms include minor diatonic scale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is minor scale a common word?

minor scale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.