Modulation
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Objectives
- Students will be able to identify and analyze different types of modulation in a musical composition.
- Students will be able to create a modulating chord progression using a diatonic common chord.
Resources
Class Activities
- Discussion and definition of the concept of modulation
- Discussion of different types of modulation, including direct and common-chord
- Harmonic analysis of modulations in different types of music
- Composition and improvisation of a common-chord modulation between two different keys
Assignments
- Identification and analysis of different types of modulation in written and recorded music
- Composition of a chord progression which uses common-chord modulation