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modulation |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: modulation n 1: a musical passage moving from one key to another [syn: {transition}] 2: (electronics) the transmission of a signal by imposing it on a carrier wave by changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
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