He played a dark, plinky composition in what sounded like a minor key.
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.
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.
There are folksy, acoustic laments, minor key ballads and a few juke-joints (Unintelligible).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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