Questions tagged [transposition]
The shifting of a melody, a harmonic progression or an entire musical piece to another key, while maintaining the same tone structure, i.e. the same succession of whole tones and semitones and remaining melodic intervals.
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Transposing French horn parts (BC + TC) in lilypond
I'm looking at a German 1876 horn part that's written "in Es" like this:
If I were to transpose that into concert-pitch, I think:
horn bass clef transposes up (c sounds like ees), and
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How to find easiest Capo placement / transposition?
Often when playing chords the guitar I ask myself if there is an easier transposition to play them?
Do you know of any tools that automatically find the best capo placement and transposition for a ...
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Understanding transposing instruments
I know just enough about music to be frustrated about how little I know. I was taught to read music and play guitar when I was five or six and I only had time to take one music appreciation class in ...
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Am I Doing It Wrong? Why Can't I Use Multiple 5-Line Staves to Represent Guitar's Open Strings?
As a rock songwriter with interest in theory, I sometimes score my music to engage with it differently. I’d open MuseScore, create 3 treble clef staves—one for the voice and two for the guitars—and a ...
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Transposing sheet music question
I know what transposing is, but I'm not sure about something. If I have some sheet music for tenor sax in A major, is that a transposed A major, or concert A major?
If the sheet music for tenor is ...
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Instrument key vs sheet music key [duplicate]
I have a logic problem in my head. Let me first state what I know.
recorder in A key with all closed holes plays an A.
recorder in C key with all closed holes plays a C.
in sheet music a C sits one ...
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Two instruments on the same staff in different octaves
I understand it's relatively common to have two instruments, even from different families, share a part and/or space in the score if they play the same thing throughout the whole piece. In a piece I'm ...
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why does music become less harmonic if we transpose it down to the extreme low end of the piano?
Why does music become less harmonic if we transpose it down to the extreme low end of the piano?
The reason I'm asking this is, is so that I cross check an assumption in a philosophy post: https://...
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Open + Barre Chord Combinations
So, for example, I am doing a song, 'Tere Hawale', Right. I transpose to my comfortable scale, so which would be E Major, right. So I find the chords, and I can have a open + Barre Chord Combination, ...
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How to avoid double sharps in LilyPond
I have this code:
\new StaffGroup <<
\override StaffGroup.SystemStartBracket.stencil = ##f
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Transposing Piano Accompaniment for Vocalist - When to Change Clefs
I have been transposing some voice + piano accompaniment music originally written for a mezzo-soprano or alto into a key for a tenor down (usually by a third or a fourth) and have found the resulting ...
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Why is french horn not written a 5th above the rest of the orchestra when it is supposed to be? [duplicate]
Here the orchestra plays in D but the french horn is written in C major when it should be written in A major. There are accidentals but I dont understan why the correct key signature is not used?
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Lilypond: transpose a sequence to modes with different intervallic structure
I am looking for a Lilypond function to transpose sequences of notes between modes that have different intervallic structure (e. g. from major to harmonic minor). My assumption is that the modes have ...
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Is using transpose function on a keyboard a bad idea? [duplicate]
I have a digital keyboard that has a transpose function which can shift the pitch up or down by the number of semi-tones I want. I hear some say that most good keyboardists frown up using the ...
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Why don't all transposing instruments have transposing clefs?
Is there a reason for which some transposing instruments (say, horns in F, bass clarinets etc.) don't have transposing clefs? For some instruments it's not odd to have them, e.g. tenor voice always ...
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