{"id":52,"date":"2024-04-04T13:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T17:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/?post_type=chapter&p=52"},"modified":"2024-07-23T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:23:51","slug":"minor-key-signatures","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/chapter\/minor-key-signatures\/","title":{"raw":"Minor Key Signatures","rendered":"Minor Key Signatures"},"content":{"raw":"Similar to major key signatures, minor key signatures tell us which notes need to be sharp or flat when music is written in a minor key. Minor key signatures ALWAYS follow the sharps or flats needed to create the natural minor scale, never the harmonic minor.<\/a>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_923\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]\"Figure Figure 12.1 [Image description \u2013 See Appendix C Figure 12.1<\/a>][\/caption][caption id=\"attachment_924\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]\"Figure Figure 12.2 [Image description \u2013 See Appendix C Figure 12.2<\/a>][\/caption]<\/a>You may notice that these key signatures are familiar; for example, E minor is identical to G major. This is because all minor key signatures have what is called a relative major, and every major key signature has a relative minor. You can find the relative MINOR key signature by finding the sixth note of a MAJOR scale. You can also find the relative MAJOR key signature by counting up to the third note of any MINOR scale.","rendered":"

Similar to major key signatures, minor key signatures tell us which notes need to be sharp or flat when music is written in a minor key. Minor key signatures ALWAYS follow the sharps or flats needed to create the natural minor scale, never the harmonic minor.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Figure 12.1 [Image description \u2013 See Appendix C Figure 12.1<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 12.2 [Image description \u2013 See Appendix C Figure 12.2<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/a>You may notice that these key signatures are familiar; for example, E minor is identical to G major. This is because all minor key signatures have what is called a relative major, and every major key signature has a relative minor. You can find the relative MINOR key signature by finding the sixth note of a MAJOR scale. You can also find the relative MAJOR key signature by counting up to the third note of any MINOR scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-52","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/52\/revisions\/1375"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/27"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/52\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openbooks.macewan.ca\/introtomusictheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}