“转调”这一音乐术语究竟源于何时?笔者无从细考。但是,这一词对每个以音乐为专业的人来说,并不陌生。纵观国内外不少专著或通俗性读物中,对“转调”的解释颇有出入。下面几例是很有代表性的;例(1)“音乐作品中,由一个调——主调、稳定的调,进行到另一个调、不稳定的调,称‘转调’”。(高天康编《音乐知识词典》)例(2)“歌曲、乐曲等在段落处或中途由原调转入另一调,叫做‘转调’。” “Tune” the music terminology comes from? I can not elaborate. However, the term is no stranger to everyone who specializes in music. Throughout many domestic and foreign monographs or popular reading, the interpretation of “transfer” quite different. The following examples are very representative; Example (1) “Music works, from a tone - the main tone, a stable tone, to another tune, unstable tone, called ’transfer’.” (Gao Tiankang edited “music knowledge dictionary”) Example (2) “songs, music and other passages in the paragraph or halfway from the original tune into another tune, called the” transfer. "