| Change of Key | A shift of tonal center that takes place between movements of a composition.
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| Change of Mode | Takes place when music moves from one key to its parallel key.
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| Closely Related Keys | Keys that have a difference of no more than one sharp or flat between their key signatures.
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| Common-Chord Modulation | The use of one or more chords that are diatonic in both keys as a kind of hinge or pivot linking the two tonalities (used to make the modulation smoother).
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| Distantly Related Keys | Keys that have a difference of more than one sharp or flat between their key signatures.
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| Enharmonically Equivalent Keys | Keys that sound the same but are spelled differently.
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| Foreign Relationships | All key relationships that are not enharmonic, parallel, relative, or closely related.
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| Mode Mixture | The use of tones from one mode (mode here refers to the major and minor modes) in a passage that is predominantly in the other mode.
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| Modulation | A shift of tonal center that takes place within an individual movement.
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| Parallel Keys | Major and minor keys that have the same tonic note.
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| Point of Modulation | The first chord that seems to be functioning more naturally in the second key than in the first.
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| Relative Keys | Major and minor keys that have the same key signature. The relative major of any minor key starts on  <![CDATA[<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=jpg::::/sites/dl/free/0078025141/963004/Chp1_3.jpg','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (0.0K)</a>]]> of the minor scale, while the relative minor of any major key begins on  <![CDATA[<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=jpg::::/sites/dl/free/0078025141/963004/Chp1_6.jpg','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (0.0K)</a>]]> of the major scale.
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| Tonicization | Similar to a modulation, but the shift of tonal center is shorter in duration.
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