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Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#1: Oct 12th 2017 at 7:29:24 PM

My main concern is that there's massive Trope Decay here.

The lede says "Please note that this is not a trope about modulation in general - that has its own page." However, modulation is merely a Useful Notes-type page explaining the overall concept of a "key change" in musical terms.

Truck Driver's Gear Change seems to have devolved into an example of "any song with a key change in it at all". Many of the examples cited are just songs that have key changes, without any obvious attempt at "dramatic effect" (or if they actually are, then the entry does not make it clear).

I think the problem here is that the page is trying to be too much at once, since there are multiple things in play here:

  1. A detailed description of "modulation"
  2. A list of examples of songs that contain modulation of any kind
  3. Modulation being intentionally used/lampshaded for "dramatic" effect

So one of the following may work:

  1. Make Modulation a Useful Notes and retool Truck Driver's Gear Change so that "straight" examples and lampshaded/deliberately "dramatic" examples are more clearly separated and explained
  2. Make Modulation list "straight" examples only, and make Truck Driver's Gear Change only for when it's used or lampshaded for deliberate "dramatic" effect

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#2: Oct 25th 2017 at 11:46:16 AM

Too thin evidence to support a TRS, especially given the current backlog. So closing.

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