minority

Examples of minority in the following topics:

• Relative Minor and Major Keys

  • Each minor key shares a key signature with a major key.
  • A minor key is called the relative minor of the major key that has the same key signature.
  • These useful accidentals are featured in the melodic minor and harmonic minor scales.
  • For example, C minor has the same key signature as E flat major, since E flat is a minor third higher than C.
  • C minor is the relative minor of E flat major.

• Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales

  • All of the scales above are natural minor scales.
  • They contain only the notes in the minor key signature.
  • Melodies in minor keys often use this particular pattern of accidentals, so instrumentalists find it useful to practice melodic minor scales.
  • Listen to the differences between the natural minor (http://cnx.org/content/m10856/latest/tonminnatural.mp3), harmonic minor (http://cnx.org/content/m10856/latest/tonminharmonic.mp3), and melodic minor (http://cnx.org/content/m10856/latest/tonminmelodic.mp3) scales.
  • Rewrite each scale from Figure 4.23 as an ascending harmonic minor scale.

• Minorities, Women, and Children

  • Minorities, women, and children are often the target of specific social policies.
  • Minorities, women, and children are often the target of specific social policies.
  • One major, particularly controversial policy targeting minority groups is affirmative action.
  • The Civil Rights Movement attempted to increase rights for minorities within the U.S.
  • Discuss government social policy toward minorities, women and children in the United States

• Jazz and "Dorian Minor"

  • One of the most useful of these is the scale based on the dorian mode, which is often called the dorian minor, since it has a basically minor sound.
  • Like any minor scale, dorian minor may start on any note, but like dorian mode, it is often illustrated as natural notes beginning on d.
  • Comparing this scale to the natural minor scale makes it easy to see why the dorian mode sounds minor; only one note is different.
  • The "dorian minor" can be written as a scale of natural notes starting on d.
  • Any scale with this interval pattern can be called a "dorian minor scale".

• Minor Scales

  • Minor scales sound different from major scales because they are based on a different pattern of intervals.
  • Just as it did in major scales, starting the minor scale pattern on a different note will give you a different key signature, a different set of sharps or flats.
  • The scale that is created by playing all the notes in a minor key signature is a natural minor scale.
  • To create a natural minor scale, start on the tonic note and go up the scale using the interval pattern: whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step.
  • For each note below, write a natural minor scale, one octave, ascending (going up) beginning on that note.

• Music in a Minor Key

  • But music that is in D minor will have a different quality, because the notes in the minor scale follow a different pattern and so have different relationships with each other.
  • Music in minor keys has a different sound and emotional feel, and develops differently harmonically.
  • So you can't, for example, transpose a piece from C major to D minor (or even to C minor) without changing it a great deal.
  • Music that is in a minor key is sometimes described as sounding more solemn, sad, mysterious, or ominous than music that is in a major key.
  • To hear some simple examples in both major and minor keys, see Major Keys and Scales.

• Cofactors, Minors, and Further Determinants

  • The cofactor of an entry $(i,j)$ of a matrix $A$ is the signed minor of that matrix.
  • To know what the signed minor is, we need to know what the minor of a matrix is.
  • Minors obtained by removing just one row and one column from square matrices (first minors) are required for calculating matrix cofactors.
  • Finding the minors of a matrix A is a multi-step process:
  • *If $i+j$ is an even number, the cofactor of coincides with its minor: $C_{ij}=M_{ij}$*Otherwise, it is equal to the additive inverse of its minor: $C_{ij}=-M_{ij}$

• Minor scales

• The Circle-of-Fifths Progression (In Minor)

• Minority Groups

  • The term "minority" is applied to various groups who hold few or no positions of power in a given society.
  • Minority group status is also categorical in nature: an individual who exhibits the physical or behavioral characteristics of a given minority group will be accorded the status of that group and be subject to the same treatment as other members of that minority group.
  • In addition to long-established ethnic minority populations in various nation-states, ethnic minorities may consist of more recent migrant, indigenous, or landless nomadic communities residing within, or between, a particular national territory.
  • The disability rights movement has contributed to an understanding of people with disabilities as a minority or a coalition of minorities who are disadvantaged by society, not just as people who are disadvantaged by their impairments.
  • Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson discusses minority health research at the National Institute of Health.