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Usually, you can tell a modulation if the "flavor" of the music (and usually, though not necessarily, the emotion) changes. This doesn't happen too often in modern popular songs, partly because they're rather short, but can sometimes be found between verses and refrains, with verses in one key and refrains in another (examples including [[The Beatles]]' "Good Day Sunshine" and Midnight Sons' "If Only Tears Could Bring You Back".
 
Modulations are VERY''very'' common in classical music, being a staple of tonal music (i.e. dating from the late 1500s forward, as opposed to modal music, which cannot modulate by virtue of not having a key in the first place). They occur both in miniature (lasting only a couple bars, or even ''a couple beats'') and larger-scale (for entire sections of a work) forms.
 
Modulation tropes include:
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