modulation

• With tremulous modulation, her vocal chords produced sounds such as I had never heard before, and of which I am powerless to give the faintest description. —  Born Again
• I realized then that modulation is a deeper source of emotional expression than melody In speaking of Chopin's melancholy character, the nocturnes are often referred to as illustrations of it. —  Chopin and Other Musical Essays
• For in Hyperides there is a richer modulation, a greater variety of excellence. —  On the Sublime
• [1 Footnote 1: Reading and putting a full stop at 4 Now to give an instance: that is doubtless a sublime thought, indeed wonderfully fine, which Demosthenes applies to his decree This decree caused the danger which then hung round our city to pass away like a cloud.” But the modulation is as perfect as the sentiment itself is weighty. —  On the Sublime
• It is a labyrinth of sweet sounds, "in many a winding bout of linked sweetness long drawn out"--that would cloy by their very sweetness, but that the ear is constantly relieved and enchanted by their continued variety of modulation-- dwelling on the pauses of the action, or flowing on in a fuller tide of harmony with the movement of the sentiment. —  Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution

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