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Chapter 19 Tonicization and Modulation

Tonicization involves briefly highlighting another key within a phrase without disrupting the home key, while modulation establishes a new key with a cadence that gives the new key priority for the time being. Closely related keys share all but one flat or sharp and include ii, iii, IV, V, and vi in major and III, iv, v, VI, and VII in minor. Pivot chords are shared between keys. Effective pivot chords when modulating to the dominant are ii, IV, and vi as they are pre-dominant functions in the new key.

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Chapter 19 Tonicization and Modulation

Tonicization involves briefly highlighting another key within a phrase without disrupting the home key, while modulation establishes a new key with a cadence that gives the new key priority for the time being. Closely related keys share all but one flat or sharp and include ii, iii, IV, V, and vi in major and III, iv, v, VI, and VII in minor. Pivot chords are shared between keys. Effective pivot chords when modulating to the dominant are ii, IV, and vi as they are pre-dominant functions in the new key.

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Chapter 19: Tonicization and Modulation

Concepts:
 Closely related keys
 Modulating sequences
 Modulation
 Pivot
 Pivot area
 Pivot chord
 Tonicized area

Summary:
 Summarize the differences between tonicization and modulation
o Tonicizations: usually occur within phrases. They do not disrupt the feeling of
the home key; they do not have strong cadences, and they are fleeting
o Modulations: include a strong cadence in the new key, and the new key continues
after the cadence. They give a feeling that a new key has usurped the home key
(at least for the moment)
 Give the roman numerals for closely related keys in a major mode
o ii, iii, IV, V, and vi
 Give the roman numerals for closely related keys in a minor mode, using the natural
minor scale
o III, iv, v, VI, and VII
 You can determine closely related keys by identifying the major and minor keys whose
key signatures differ by no more than 1 sharp of flat sign from the original key
o Keys closely related to C major (0 sharps/flats) are: A minor (0 sharps/flats), G
major (1 sharp), E minor (1 sharp), F major (1 flat), and D minor (1 flat)
o Keys closely related to C minor (3 flats) are: Eb major (3 flats), F minor (4 flats),
Ab major (4 flats), G minor (2 flats), Bb major (2 flats)
 Pivot chord: a chord that is diatonic in the old key and the new key
 Complete the chart below listing all the possible pivot chords between C major and G
major. Put an “X” if the chord does not exist in G major
C major I ii iii IV V vi viio
G major

 The best pivot chords are pre-dominant in function in the new key because they can
begin a phrase model (PD-D-T) that confirms the new key. Therefore, if ii, IV, and vi are
pre-dominant in function, which triads are effective pivot chords between C major and G
major?
o A
 True or false: ii, IV, and vi in the dominant will always be effective pivot chords when
modulating to the dominant in a major key
 Pivot area: several chords in succession (such as a sequence) that function in two keys
will work together

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