The left-channel's modulations are encoded on one of the groove's 45º walls, and the right-channel's on the other.
The ceramic cartridges that followed had greater compliance (ie, offered less resistance to movement) and could therefore follow the modulations in the groove more accurately without jumping out or causing distortion.
(The term "baud", for modulations per second, used to denote modem transmission speeds, is derived from his name).
The composer confronts the problem of returning to the tonic via more distant chords, and this is sometimes accomplished by modulations that bear no thematic relation to the exposition.
Hunts, feasts, battles, storms, and landscapes were described with a brilliant concretion of detail rarely paralleled since, while the abler poets also contrived subtle modulations of the staple verse-paragraph to accommodate dialogue, discourse, and argument.
On the contrary, I should be sorry if symphonies that mean nothing should flow from my pen, consisting solely of a progression of harmonies, rhythms and modulations.…As a matter of fact, the work is patterned after Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, not as to musical content but as to the basic idea.
The Waste Land showed him to be, in addition, a metrist of great virtuosity, capable of astonishing modulations ranging from the sublime to the conversational.
Common uses of such devices are rectification and switching (e.g., opening inductive energy-storage circuits, on-off modulations, and closing applications).
The Chinese system concentrates in a similar way on a seven-tone scale but with a five-tone core (wu sheng) plus two changing (bian) tones to accommodate transpositions of a single mode to different pitch levels as well as modulations from one mode to another.
Ellington's harmonic lessons were finally beginning to be appreciated as arrangers forged beyond simple triadic and dominant harmonies into the various types of 9th, 11th, and 13th chords, all manner of substitute harmonizations, and wide-ranging modulations.
Eventually, the chromatic scale of 12 equidistant semitones superseded the diatonic scale, the inseparable partner of functional harmony, to the extent that melodic-rhythmic tensions and resolutions took the place of the harmonic cadences and modulations that had determined the structure of Western music for centuries.
