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6.74Ear drill: distinguish tonicization from true modulation

A brief dominant can point somewhere without establishing a lasting new key.

A longer passage that cadences and stays in the new center feels like modulation.

Listen for:

  • cadence
  • duration
  • repeated tonic function

not just one chromatic chord.