Is hallelujah Leonard Cohen minor or major key?

Answer 1

It's on a MAJOR KEY reason been that after progressing through several pitcĥes (notes) the music ends in "doh". This basically established a major scale tonality for it.

This arrangement reflects both at the end of each verse and chorus in the music. For instance, at the end of the first verse, the line "...baffled king composing Halleluyah" has the solfege r r r r m m m r r d

The progression "r" (supertonic) to "d" (tonic) clearly shows that this section of the music was built on the major scale. Also, at the chorus section, the last phrase "... halleluyah " has the solfege

l s m r d

Again, this section has the supertonic-tonic progression on the major scale.

To probe further, the chord progression in the song all leads to the tonic chord on the major key.

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