He played a dark, plinky composition in what sounded like a minor key.
There are folksy, acoustic laments, minor key ballads and a few juke-joints (Unintelligible).
The piano interlude captures the sweet side of the one-eyed pianist's syncopated style, set in a minor key but with a rolling, rollicking New Orleans bass that demonstrates how men like Booker used their music to drive the blues away.
Ms. Gornik takes a kind of postmodern approach to landscape, with color in a minor key that gives the painting a coolly detached mood, as if she were deliberately playing against the emotional intensity that has been such a signature element of this genre, particularly in 19th-century America.
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This bittersweet Western blues, directed by Wim Wenders from a script by Sam Shepard, is a minor-key delight.
The idiom of this music often moved away from the poignant, seductive minor-key flavor of Balkan, Arabic and Klezmer music.
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About one second into "Serpentine, " it's clear that Chris Bathgate knows his way around pretty, minor-key indie-folk: The mournful piano line which opens the song makes that instantaneously clear.
Arborea's self-titled CD reflects the sepia-toned landscapes and creaky acoustic instrumentation of backwoods Americana, and the minor-key narratives tell sinister tales in the spirit of English murder ballads.
Bringing to mind Bley's softly exhilarating solo recitals, the theme segues in and out of a minor-key improvisation that meanders like pockets of storm clouds on an otherwise pleasant day.
But as bleak as "Our Hell" is, it's virtually impossible to deny the song's glorious arrangement, in which Haines and her supporting cast lay out a rich assortment of warm, minor-key melodies.
In European trading, losses were widespread but minor, with key indexes in the main markets showing fractional percentage declines.
Last week we did see some overbought readings as we were up 10 sessions in a row and there was some minor weakness in key stocks.
And after a couple of key trades netted elite minor leaguers like pitcher Zack Wheeler and catcher Travis d'Arnaud, better days could be ahead.
They followed the triumphs and occasional disappointments of election night on a giant screen, greeting minor adjustments to the vote in key states with gales of applause and reacting to bigger news, like an outright victory, with a hurricane of sound that would have frightened the Beatles off stage.
"We find it interesting that many tech blogs and reviewers panned the iPhone 5 saying it 'lacked the wow factor' similar to the iPhone 4 that was plagued by 'antenna-gate' and the iPhone 4S which was a relatively 'minor' and 'disappointing' update with Siri as the key new feature, " he wrote.
The key is to keep small things small and work things out before minor scrapes become big problems.
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