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Elevating form and elevating modulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2014

Dai Griffiths
Dai Griffiths*
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School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK E-mail: dmgriffiths@brookes.ac.uk
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Abstract

The device known as, among other terms, truck-driver modulation, arranger's modulation and pump-up modulation is an important procedure for popular music, and one that merits a place in the harmony textbook. Emerging from a discussion of nomenclature, this paper proposes the terms of its title, which distinguishes between modulation as part of the overall form of a track, and modulation as a technical device. Four models are presented for the modulation, with a final discussion of different models used in the one track.

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Popular Music , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 22 - 44
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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