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The following 7 entries include the term minor scale.
harmonic minor scale
noun: a minor scale like the natural form except that the 7th tone is raised by a half step (as A-B-C-D-E-F-G♯-A)
melodic minor scale
noun: a minor scale with the ascending intervals between the scale tones consisting of whole steps except those between two and three and seven and eight and with the descending intervals corresponding to the pattern of the natural minor scale with half steps between six and five and three and two
natural minor scale
noun: a minor scale with the diatonic intervals being whole steps except those half-steps between 2–3 and 5–6 and corresponding in pattern to the Aeolian church mode compare harmonic minor scale, melodic minor scale
normal minor scale
nounoriginal minor scale
nounpure minor scale
noun
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