Conversion from the sql_variant data type to the large-value data types is an explicit conversion. Large-value data types cannot be converted to the sql_variant data type. For more information about how to convert from the xml data type, see Create Instances of XML Data.
Modulation is a device in music that allows a transition from one key to another. There are many types of modulation: Common chord modulation pivots on a chord common to both keys. Parallel modulation moves between major and minor keys of the same tonic.
Open Music Theory. A cadence is a point of arrival that punctuates the end of a musical unit, such as a phrase, theme, large formal section, or movement. A cadence is at once a harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, and formal event, but cadences tend to be grouped according to different ways in which harmony and melody articulate that point of arrival.