MODULATION, in Music

in music, shift in the key center of a composition. For its accomplishment use is made of the fact that each chord figures in the harmonic relationships of several keys. In modulating from one key to another, a chord that is common to both keys is used as a pivot chord. If there is no chord common to the two keys, a passage may move through several keys before the desired modulation has been effected. Modulation is commonly employed as a means of achieving variety in a composition and has been in use since the late 15th cent.

See C. Zöller, The Art of Modulation (1930); M. Reger, On the Theory of Modulation (tr. 1948).

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The Amadeus Book of the Violin: Construction, History, and Music
Book by Walter Kolneder, Reinhard G. Pauly; Amadeus Press, 1993
Subjects: Violin, Violin Music--History And Criticism
...still encounter difficulties with music that is more complex, freely tonal...harmonic form, chord structure, and modulation. Music that is tonally free may also require...requirements of twentieth-century music. The "Kreutzer etudes" for our...
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The Psychology of Music
Book by Diana Deutsch; Academic Press, 1999
Subjects: Music--Psychological Aspects
...we consider the following aspects of temporal coding and rhy- thm : amplitude modulation, temporal pattern, and gap detection. A. AMPLITUDE MODULATION Music, as other complex stimuli such as species-specific vocalizations and hu- man...
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Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West
Book by Alec Harman, Anthony Milner, Wilfrid Mellers; Oxford University Press, 1962
Subjects: Music--History And Criticism
...jazz style--the Piano Rag- Music and the Ragtime for 11 instruments...cliches common to European art music. Thus the thematic material of...developed, and there is virtually no modulation; the music depends on the exciting effect...
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Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music
Book by Peter Van der Merwe; Clarendon Press, 1992
Subjects: Popular Music--History And Criticism
...1, 259 , 261 mediant key , modulation to in parlour style, Ex...blues 241 medieval European music syncopations in 272 "double...51 -2, 164 in classical music 244 in early ragtime, Ex...3 Mississippi 42 , 53 , 55 music in 62 , 78 , 149 -50 "Mississippi...
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Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles
Book by Ted Solís; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Ethnomusicology, Folk Music Groups, World Music--Instruction And Study
...1989b. The Periodization of Arab Music Theory: Continuity and Change...33 49. Marcus, Scott.1992. Modulation in Arab Music: Documenting Oral Concepts...Sumarsam. 1975. Central Javanese Music: The Patet of Laras Slendro and...
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Modulation of Drug Use in Southern Farming Communities: Social Origins of Poly-use
Journal article by Keith V. Bletzer; Human Organization, Vol. 68, 2009
Subjects: Drug use, Farmworkers, Job satisfaction, Work environment, Workers
Modulation of Drug Use in Southern Farming Communities...that adds to experiential knowledge of modulation that circulates in farmworker discourse...eventually interviewed him twice.4 Learning Modulation Agricultural workers took knowledge...
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Mode, Melody, and Harmony in Traditional Afro-Cuban Music: From Africa to Cuba
Journal article by Peter Manuel, Orlando Fiol; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 27, 2007
Subjects: Afro-Cubanism--Social aspects, Folk music--Social aspects
...often occasioning a modulation. (14) Conventions...attitudes regarding such modulations are not as formalized...Egyptian Arab art music, in which modal modulation is a focus of musical...opinions regarding modulation. Cuban akpwon Lazaro...rather than haphazard modulations: "You know, I am...who only sing ocha music; I read music, play...
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The Magic Wand of the Wagnerians: Musik ALS Ausdruck*
Journal article by Stephen McClatchie; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 13, 1993
Subjects: Music history, Musical criticism, Musicians & conductors, Musicology
...of non-harmonic tones or modulation away from and back to a tonic. If music acts directly upon our will...that the feelings aroused by music are of an indistinct, imprecise...never be forgotten ... that music ... never expresses the phenomenon...
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Harmonic Expectation and Affect in Western Music: Effects of Attention and Training
Journal article by Psyche Loui, David Wessel; Perception and Psychophysics, Vol. 69, 2007
Subjects: Classical music, Memory, Musicians & conductors, Psychology, Studies
...training on attention and music perception. Differences...involves attentional modulation: It is possible that...which humans attend to music and form expectations...attention is required for the modulation of harmonic expectation...possible that during music lessons, melodies are...
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Tintinnabulations of Bells: Scoring-Prosody in Third-Century China and Its Relationship to Yueh-Fu Party Music
Journal article by Howard L. Goodman; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 126, 2006
Subjects: Music in poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Poe, Edgar Allan--Works, Poets--Works, The Bells (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (New York: Routledge, 2002), 121-22, mostly about modulation within modes. 27. See Laurence...Okamoto Miyoko, Robert Walker, Music from the Tang Court, 7: Some...modes, see Picken et al., Music from the Tang Court, 9-10...
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Ravi Shankar, Godfather of World Music
Magazine article by Iris Brooks; World and I, Vol. 17, March 2002
Subjects: Indian music--Criticism and interpretation, Music, Indian--Criticism and interpretation, Shankar, Ravi--Interviews, Sitar players--Behavior, Sitarists--Behavior
...contrast to Western classical music, however, with its emphasis...progressions, counterpoint, and modulation, Indian classical music is principally based on the interweaving...upon which ragas are based. Music scholars estimate that there...
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Annotated Bibliography on Musician Wellness
Magazine article by Linda Cockey, Kathryn Kalmanson; American Music Teacher, Vol. 57, June 2008
Subjects: Music education--Bibliography, Music in education--Bibliography, Music teachers--Health aspects, Music teachers--Practice
...accessories such as the chair, music stand or score and how to change...sound production and the modulation system and the ear are all...reviewed. Chapter 6, "Mind and Music: Further Psychological Aspects...and how to learn a piece of music. Chapter 6, "Training the...
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The Music of "Having Church."
Magazine article by Michael Linton; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, March 1998
Subjects: Gospel music--Political aspects, Homosexuality and Christianity--Social aspects
...applauded when its done. It is music to be sung, and encouraged...with the singers. This is music of the family, and at this...piece through repetition and modulation while a soloist (if there...expected to extemporize text and music. Sometimes these improvisations...
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Time Out!
Magazine article by Andrea Mcalister; American Music Teacher, Vol. 56, April 2007
Subjects: Music education--Methods, Music in education--Methods, Music teachers--Services, Time management--Analysis
...higher level of awareness to the music they are hearing. Our students are bombarded every day with music on television, radio and MP3...not think about form, key, modulation or different interpretations...think intelligently about their music is not only a benefit when...
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Creativity and Cadenzas in the Studio
Magazine article by Sion M. Honea; American Music Teacher, Vol. 57, December 2007
Subjects: Architects--Influence, Creative ability--Study and teaching, Creativity--Study and teaching, Fowler, Charles--Influence, Music education--Methods, Music in education--Methods, Music teachers--Personal narratives
...into the world of living music, but is also an important...the interpretation of the music. It begins to break down...should not be too long. * Modulations to remote keys should be...the tonic so as to avoid modulation. (7) More passage work...useful comments on simple modulation and the introduction of...8) His suggestion that modulations are readily achieved through...
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You've Got to Take Your Hat off to Elvis; MUSIC
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 27, 2010
...it another way: is todays music industry remotely likely to...Costello has more than a touch of music hall about him. Most remarkably...close attention to phrasing and modulation has been evident from his earliest...question best not left up to a music industry dominated by Simon...
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The Strange, Unique 'Language' of Crumb: Composer's Haunting Piece, 'Black Angels,' Flies into the District
Newspaper article by Mark Longaker; The Washington Times, February 29, 1996
...and is aware "that there is such a thing in music as a psychological projection. Music can convey psychological states - emotions...of emotion can evolve into another like a modulation. "Music is a constantly modulating expression of emotive...
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MAKE-A-DATE DIARY: Make a Date Diary
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), May 22, 2004
...Road, Carrowdore, featuring music by The Bizz. SUNDAY, May...consultations on cross-compliance, modulation and the Nitrates Directive...consultations on cross-compliance, modulation and the Nitrates Directive...consultations on cross-compliance, modulation and the Nitrates Directive...
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MAKE-A-DATE DIARY: Wednesday 19th May - Saturday 5th June
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), May 19, 2004
...Road, Carrowdore, featuring music by The Bizz. SUNDAY, May...consultations on cross-compliance, modulation and the Nitrates Directive...consultations on cross-compliance, modulation and the Nitrates Directive...consultations on cross-compliance, modulation and the Nitrates Directive...
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UO Opera to Stage Henry Purcell's 'Dido and Aeneas'
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), February 19, 2009
Subjects: Dido and Aeneas (Opera)
...Friday, Room 163 As part of the Music Today Festival, timpanist...credited with "inventing" metric modulation. Dowd, a professor of percussion...p.m. in Room 163 of the music building. Tickets are $10...alumnus Joe Powers will close the Music Today Festival on Saturday...
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Modulation , in Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MODULATION , in music in music, shift in the key center of a composition. For its accomplishment...keys, a passage may move through several keys before the desired modulation has been effected. Modulation is commonly employed as a means of...
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Modulation , in Communications
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MODULATION , in communications in communications...from the wave produced by modulation. The original, unmodulated...or a pulse chain. In modulation, it is processed in such...has become the choice of music listeners because of its...
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Key , in Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KEY , in music 1 In music, term used to indicate the scale from...chords may be borrowed from other keys. Modulation to another key may take place, but...20th-century composers. 2 Also in music, in reference to musical instruments...
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Harmony
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...became general. The polyphonic music of Bach has a harmonic structure...explored, the principle of modulation appeared, and composers developed...discarded tonality in favor of music that is composed in terms of...lines. See atonality ; serial music . See W. J. Mitchell, Elementary...
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Radio
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...impressed on it by a process called modulation . The actual information in...The two most common types of modulation used in radio are amplitude...transmission of sounds (voice and music) and pictures (television...telephony the transmission of music and speech also began in 1906...
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