You are having a dig at me Bernard. But I will overlook it, because you seem to have been absent on the day that they discussed the E natural minor scale, which doesn't have a D# in it.

As it is, I happened to look modulation about a minute ago in the Harper-Collins dictionary of music, and found the points that you made, laid out as you did with some additions--true to a point, but they really don't address Peter's problem (and if it wasn't for Peter, we would have very few discussions of this sort)

Anyway, I went to music school too. I even studied composition. Unfortunately, the theory doesn't account for what is played very well--especially when it comes to f9lk music.