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  2. Modulation (music) - Wikipedia

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    Though modulation generally refers to changes of key, any parameter may be modulated, particularly in music of the 20th and 21st century. Metric modulation (known also as tempo modulation) is the most common, while timbral modulation (gradual changes in tone color), and spatial modulation (changing the location from which sound occurs) are also ...

  3. Metric modulation - Wikipedia

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    In music, metric modulation is a change in pulse rate and/or pulse grouping (subdivision) which is derived from a note value or grouping heard before the change. ...

  4. Mediant - Wikipedia

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    In music, the mediant (Latin: "being in the middle" [1]) is the third scale degree of a diatonic scale, being the note halfway between the tonic and the dominant. [2] In the movable do solfège system, the mediant note is sung as mi. While the fifth scale degree is almost always a perfect fifth, the mediant can be a major or minor third.

  5. Modulation - Wikipedia

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    Categorization for signal modulation based on data and carrier types. In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a separate signal called the modulation signal that typically contains information to be transmitted. [1]

  6. Frequency modulation synthesis - Wikipedia

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    Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of sound synthesis whereby the frequency of a waveform is changed by modulating its frequency with a modulator. The (instantaneous) frequency of an oscillator is altered in accordance with the amplitude of a modulating signal.

  7. Talk:Modulation (music) - Wikipedia

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    Most of the article correctly focuses on what musicians understand to be modulation, for example when the tonic modulates to the dominant (eg using a "pivot chord"). But occasionally it refers to what in popular music is called a "key change", when the music simply shifts up a semitone (or very occasionally a tone).

  8. Scale (music) - Wikipedia

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    These scales are used in all of their transpositions. The music of this period introduces modulation, which involves systematic changes from one scale to another. Modulation occurs in relatively conventionalized ways. For example, major-mode pieces typically begin in a "tonic" diatonic scale and modulate to the "dominant" scale a fifth above.

  9. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A Picardy third, Picardy cadence (ˈpɪkərdi ) or, in French, tierce picarde is a harmonic device used in Western classical music. It refers to the use of a major chord of the tonic at the end of a musical section that is either modal or in a minor key. piatti Cymbals, generally meaning a pair of orchestral clashed cymbals piena