Modulation Theory

Guerino Mazzola; Maria Mannone; Yan Pang

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42937-3_23

Modulation Theory

Guerino Mazzola, Maria Mannone, Yan Pang

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Modulation is a central theme in tonal musical composition. It means the transition from one tonality to another. Of course such a situation is not omnipresent since either the very concept of a tonality is not given (in the composer’s or in the theorist’s mind), or when present, there is no real theory of how to modulate. This chapter dös not intend to present the one and only modulation theory, but is written to prove that precise mathematical conceptualization and the application of mathematical methods can lead to explicit and efficient models of modulation.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Computational Music Science
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	191-202
Number of pages	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42937-3_23
State	Published - 2016

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Name	Computational Music Science
ISSN (Print)	1868-0305
ISSN (Electronic)	1868-0313

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Major Scale
Music Theory
Musical Object
Pitch Class
Tonal Modulation

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