<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . No cleanup reason has been specified . Please help improve this section if you can . (June 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The minor scale can be described in two different ways . One way is to consider it as the sixth mode of a major scale, while the other is to call it a variation of the major scale, with the third scale degrees always lowered (or altered) and the sixth and seventh degrees often lowered . </P> <P> Minor keys are sometimes said to have a more interesting, possibly sadder sound than plain major scales . The minor mode, with its variable sixth and seventh degrees, offers nine notes, in C: C-D-E ♭ - F-G-A ♭ - A ♮ - B ♭ - B ♮, over the major mode's seven, in C: C-D-E-F-G-A-B . </P> <P> Harry Partch considers minor as, "the immutable faculty of ratios, which in turn represent an immutable faculty of the human ear ." The minor key and scale are also considered less justifiable than the major, with Paul Hindemith calling it a "clouding" of major, and Moritz Hauptmann calling it a "falsehood of the major". </P>

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