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Thread #155630   Message #3667138
Posted By: GUEST,J S Bach
08-Oct-14 - 10:05 AM
Thread Name: Songs in minor key that aren't sad?
Subject: RE: Songs in minor key that aren't sad?
A name, to distinguish myself from the other guest(s) who made a couple of recent posts (I originally thought I was going to make just the one post, adding minor key calypsos and Misirlou), and also to make use of my new-found knowledge that musicians can sign things any way they want.

I nearly always use at least some of the relative minor chords in a song that I think of as being in a major key. In my own pidgin version of music theory, I've come to think of a minor key as simply one that doesn't use two of the three major chords of the key, so that it's a kind of sub-set of the major key.

Of course, that was before I heard about the minor and major third, which I guess means that a minor key uses a different set of notes than a major key, if I understand that correctly. Unless the person who writes the score decides not to use those different notes, as I gather from the more recent posts. Busy, busy, busy.