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Major or minor melody
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Melodies are major or minor, too.
A melody gets its colour from the notes it uses, just like a chord.
The same tune, major, then minor.
Frère Jacques, then the same tune with E lowered to E♭. Mahler used the minor version in his First Symphony.
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The clue is the third again.
Frère Jacques climbs C, D, E: a major third above its first note. Lower the E to E♭ and the climb is a minor third, so the tune turns dark.
Major or minor?
Two tunes you may know.
Major or minor?
Listen from the note the tune starts and ends on.
These tunes begin and end on their home note. Hum it, then listen for the third above it: bright or dark?
Major or minor?
You can hear a major or a minor melody.
What you learned
- A melody is major or minor, just like a chord.
- The clue is the third above the home note: major or minor.
- Lowering one note turned Frère Jacques from bright to dark.
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