Music GCSE
Minor versus major tonality
What Minor versus major tonality means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Minor versus major tonality
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The minor 3rd gives the characteristic darker quality associated with minor keys, distinguishing minor tonality from major tonality.
Topics that use Minor versus major tonality
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Tonality (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Cadences and modulation
- Effect of omitting semitone steps
- Interval calculation
- Interval of a minor third
- Interval recognition
- Key signatures
- Major and minor patterns
- Major scale construction
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