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调音,调节,抑扬

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modulation \Mod`u*la"tion\, n. [L. modulatio: cf. F.
   modulation.]
   1. The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated;
      as, the modulation of the voice.

   2. Sound modulated; melody. [R.] --Thomson.

   3. (Mus.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the
      music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of
      the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center
      upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of
      the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it
      may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote.
      There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.

资料来源 : WordNet®

modulation
     n 1: a musical passage moving from one key to another [syn: {transition}]
     2: (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to
        vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or
        frequency or phase
     3: rise and fall of the voice pitch [syn: {intonation}, {pitch
        contour}]
     4: a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone
        of the voice is modified [syn: {inflection}]
     5: the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure
        and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)