Tonicization

the visit, formally

Making a non-tonic chord sound like a temporary tonic — usually by borrowing its dominant or leading-tone chord — without ever leaving home. It's local: no cadence in the new key, no duration there, and the home key never lets go. Stay long enough to cadence and settle, and the same gesture becomes modulation. The whole Inside/Outside split of this site is this distinction.

E73⁷
Am6-
Dm72-⁷
G75⁷
C1
Play this on the neck in Key Change Lab →

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