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Modulation
Modulation Mod`u*la"tion, n. [L. modulatio: cf. F.
modulation.]
1. The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated;
as, the modulation of the voice.
2. Sound modulated; melody. [R.] --Thomson.
3. (Mus.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the
music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of
the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center
upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of
the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it
may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote.
There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.
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