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Transposition vs Modulation - What's the difference?

transposition | modulation |

As nouns the difference between transposition and modulation

is that transposition is the act or process of transposing or interchanging while modulation is the process of applying a signal to a carrier, modulating.

transposition

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
  • (music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
  • (chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.

    • Derived terms

    * transpositional

    Related terms

    * transpose

    See also

    * twelve tone technique * serialism

    References

    * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6.

    modulation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of applying a signal to a carrier, modulating.
  • Methods of modulating.

    • Derived terms

    * demodulation * paramodulation ----