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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dear Devin and all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Two examples from the general pop (and tonal) musical world:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Shania Twain, “If You Wanna Touch Her, Ask” moves up by successive whole-step modulations from C to D, to E, and then F#.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Scooter Lee, “Dizzy” (a club and line-dance hit) spins through Ab, A, Bb, drops to G, moves back up through modulations and finally winds up in B.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">More on the Twain modulation and several others in her songs plus one from Faith Hill, in
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“Country-Pop Formulae and Craft: Shania Twain’s Crossover Appeal,”
<i>Expression in Pop-Rock Music</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> ed., ed. Walter Everett. New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 285-311.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jneal@email.unc.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue">jneal@email.unc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Smt-talk [mailto:smt-talk-bounces@lists.societymusictheory.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Devin Chaloux<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 15, 2014 11:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> smt-talk smt<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Smt-talk] Popular Songs with 3 or more modulations?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Listening to Beyonce's 2011 single "Love on Top" from the album "4" has prompted an inquiry to those on this list. For those familiar with the song, the end features four successive modulations of the chorus up by a half step (thus moving
from the initial key of C major to the final key of E major). It's a particularly striking example of modulation in pop music, especially recent Top 40 hits. I'd venture to say that even finding two modulations in one pop song is a fairly rare occurrence in
the last 10 or so years of Top 40 radio...let alone three or four. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I seem to recall Brian Hoffmann presented at least one example at the recent MTMW meeting, but the name of the song is escaping me at the moment. Are there any others that you can think of?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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Devin Chaloux</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">Indiana University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">Ph.D. in Music Theory (enrolled)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">University of Cincinnati - College-Conservatory of Music</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">M.M. in Music Theory '12</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">University of Connecticut</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">B.M. in Music Theory '10</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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