Sentences with phrase «songs in a minor key»

Songs composed in a major key tend to sound warm and effervescent (think «We Can Work it Out» by the Beatles, released in 1965), whereas songs in a minor key can sound darker and more melancholic (think «Boulevard of Broken Dreams» by Green Day, released in 2005).

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In a darker mood, there are the «western» sections of All the King's Men, where Jack Burden sings much the same song, but in a minor key, during and after his flight westward (on discovering Anne Stanton's affair with Willie Stark): he was «drowning in West,» he sayIn a darker mood, there are the «western» sections of All the King's Men, where Jack Burden sings much the same song, but in a minor key, during and after his flight westward (on discovering Anne Stanton's affair with Willie Stark): he was «drowning in West,» he sayin a minor key, during and after his flight westward (on discovering Anne Stanton's affair with Willie Stark): he was «drowning in West,» he sayin West,» he says.

Over the last few decades, popular songs have switched from major to minor keys: In the 1960s, 85 percent of the songs were written in a major key, compared with only about 40 percent of them noIn the 1960s, 85 percent of the songs were written in a major key, compared with only about 40 percent of them noin a major key, compared with only about 40 percent of them now.

The result — so clearly defined within Number 4 - 32 — embodies an almost musical dissonance, not unlike a song written in a minor key, which ravishes its listener by nature of its strange and beautiful melody.