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- noun music the
minor key withA as itstonic - noun music the
minor chord with aroot ofA
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Examples
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And on that basis, he wrote that Reed's death struck a "chord" -- I'm guessing A-minor, because that's a really sad chord.
Washington Post Reporter Says He Was Elated To Learn Of Homeless Man's Death [UPDATE] The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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And on that basis, he wrote that Reed's death struck a "chord" -- I'm guessing A-minor, because that's a really sad chord.
Washington Post Reporter Says He Was Elated To Learn Of Homeless Man's Death [UPDATE] The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I used the A-minor scale for the amino acids based on their level of attraction to water.
Grad Student Uses HIV DNA To Make Music Danielle Wiener-Bronner 2010
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I used the A-minor scale for the amino acids based on their level of attraction to water.
Grad Student Uses HIV DNA To Make Music The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I used the A-minor scale for the amino acids based on their level of attraction to water.
Grad Student Uses HIV DNA To Make Music Danielle Wiener-Bronner 2010
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I used the A-minor scale for the amino acids based on their level of attraction to water.
Grad Student Uses HIV DNA To Make Music The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Then the orchestra enters, establishing the pattern that will run through the movement, playing the three notes of the A-minor triad against slow A-minor scales.
Arvo Pärt’s Sound of Silence Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2009
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The pianist began to unfurl a long, driving, ruminative meditation on "an old A-minor chord" -- a thoughtful exploration that would still sound fresh 70 years later.
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As if Grizzly Adams went to the Angus Young school of A-minor assassination.
Live Review - Bison 2007
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It comforted him to know that the A-minor and C-major scales shared the exact same notes.
Plain Language Barbara Wright 2007
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