Dominant vs Modulate - What's the difference?
dominant | modulate |
(music) The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
(music) The triad built on the dominant tone.
(BDSM) The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
* 2011 , Jayne Rylon, Mistress's Master (page 65)
Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling.
* Macaulay
Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
* 2009 , H. Stephen Stoker, General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry , page 10
To regulate, adjust or adapt
To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
(electronics) to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music)
(music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression
In music|lang=en terms the difference between dominant and modulate
is that dominant is (music) the triad built on the dominant tone while modulate is (music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression.As a noun dominant
is (music) the fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus g is the dominant of c, a of d, and so on.As an adjective dominant
is ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling.As a verb modulate is
to regulate, adjust or adapt.dominant
English
Noun
(en noun)- His story was a fable you told dominants in training to stress the importance of comprehending the depths of your submissive's needs.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The dominant party controlled the government.
- The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, but imperious, insolent, and cruel.
- The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.
- All other elements are mere "impurities" when their abundances are compared with those of these two dominant elements.