Definition of "modulatory" []

• Of or pertaining to modulation. (adjective)

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• "Debussy doesn't seem atonal to us, but his penchant for using familiar chords (dominant 7ths, for example) for color rather than modulatory function must have exacerbated that modulatory uncertainty — in a Heisenberg-like way, in fact."
• "But I was listening to Daphnis et Chloe the other night, and I could kind of hear the modulatory point — at any given time, you know aurally what key Ravel is in, but there's far less ability to predict where he's headed next."
• "You need to access your brain's pain modulatory system."