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Key and Modulation
This example is in C major but again there are quite a lot of accidentals. These chords are chromatic in the sense that they include notes that are not part of the diatonic scale of C major, but unlike the chords on the previous page, they are not the any of the special chromatic chords discussed elsewhere on TonalityGUIDE. They are instead diatonic chords drawn from keys other than C major. As explained below, however, they are not modulations because they do not properly establish the new key.
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the first chord of the first full bar is a dominant seventh chord in its last
inversion. If the extract were modulating you might think that it was modulating to F - one step flatwards on the circle of fifths. However, there is no perfect cadence in F or any other triads taken from the diatonic scale of this key
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as shown in brackets on the example, the next two chords are both from the key of G - the dominant, one step flatwards on the circle of fifths. Again this is a plausible key to modulate to. However, there is no perfect cadence in G major and this, along with the fact that only two chords are drawn from the scale of G major, means that this is not a modulation
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