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Major key   /mˈeɪdʒər ki/   Listen
Major key

noun
1.
A key whose harmony is based on the major scale.  Synonym: major mode.






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"Major key" Quotes from Famous Books



... up, thinking you must get back to work. Why, you're nearer real work in following the phantoms than mere gray matter ever will unfold for you. Creating is a process of the depths; the brain is but the surface of the instrument that produces. How wearisome music would be, if we knew only the major key! How terrible would be sunlight, if there were no night! Out of darkness and the deep minor keys of the soul come those utterances vast and flexible ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort

... accompaniment for a sovereign's entrance to his capital. 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. A certain grandeur of movement alone can preserve its gigantesque ...
— Musical Memories • Camille Saint-Saens



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