- Colonist - Colonist who pays all debts - One who opens up new land - Pioneer - One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc. - Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or
a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England. - That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which
settles or decides a contest.
- The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated;
as, the modulation of the voice. - Sound modulated; melody. - A change of key, whether transient, or until the music
becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a
piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic;
the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related,
and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote.
There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.