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  2. Modulation (music) - Wikipedia

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    Example of modulation from the tonic to the dominant. [1] Play ⓘ Key signature change example: C major to C minor. In music, modulation is the change from one tonality (tonic, or tonal center) to another. This may or may not be accompanied by a change in key signature (a key change).

  3. Metric modulation - Wikipedia

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    In music, metric modulation is a change in pulse rate ... Examples of the use of metric modulation include Carter's Cello Sonata (1948), [10] ...

  4. Key (music) - Wikipedia

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    This is an example of modulation. In rock and popular music some pieces change back and forth, or modulate, between two keys. Examples of this include Fleetwood Mac 's " Dreams " and The Rolling Stones ' " Under My Thumb ".

  5. Tonicization - Wikipedia

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    The pitches used in a V/ii in this example include the notes A, C# and E (creating an A major chord). In the key of D minor, an A major chord is the dominant chord. In the key of C major, C sharp is an accidental. One can often find examples of tonicization by looking for accidentals, as there are always accidentals involved in tonicization.

  6. Modular music - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, the term Modular and/or Modular Music is often applied nowadays to Electronic Music especially: examples can be found in the Serge synthesizer, Modular synthesizer, in the work of composer and performer Scot Gresham-Lancaster, one of the early pioneers of "computer network" music which uses the behavior of interconnected music ...

  7. Binary form - Wikipedia

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    A typical example of a piece in binary form has two large sections of roughly equal duration. The first will begin in a certain key, which will often, (but not always), modulate to a closely related key. Pieces in a major key will usually modulate to the dominant, (the fifth scale degree above the tonic).

  8. Modulation - Wikipedia

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    The changes in the carrier signal are chosen from a finite number of M alternative symbols (the modulation alphabet). Schematic of 4 baud, 8 bit/s data link containing arbitrarily chosen values. A simple example: A telephone line is designed for transferring audible sounds, for example, tones, and not digital bits (zeros and ones). Computers ...

  9. Metre (music) - Wikipedia

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    A metric modulation is a modulation from one metric unit or metre to another. The use of asymmetrical rhythms – sometimes called aksak rhythm (the Turkish word for "limping") – also became more common in the 20th century: such metres include quintuple as well as more complex additive metres along the lines of 2+2+3 time, where each bar has ...