Instruments Transposition and Clefs
Concert pitch = non-transposed pitch String Instruments Violin: treble clef, not transposing Viola: alto clef, not transposing Cello: bass, tenor and treble clef, not transposing Double bass: bass clef, sounds …
Enharmonic Transposition
Very occasionally, the key you transpose into might be an enharmonic equivalent. For example, a Bb clarinet part originally in the key of Gb major, will end up in Fb …
Transposition (ABRSM Grade 6)
Transposition in Q4 and Q5 In the grade 6 ABRSM Music Theory exam you will definitely be asked to transpose a few bars of music from an orchestral score. Most …
Transposing by a 4th or 5th
In this lesson we will learn how to move a tune up or down by the interval of a perfect 4th or perfect 5th. This is the interval of transposition …
Transposing by a 2nd or 3rd
Most clarinets and trumpets are pitched “in Bb”, which means that the sounds produced by the instrument are a major 2nd lower than written. To work out how music written …
Transposing Instruments
What note do you hear when you play this note on the piano? You hear a middle C, of course. But if you play the same note on a clarinet, …
Transposition (Grade 3 ABRSM)
Transpose at the Octave Transpose means “write in another place”. Transposed music can be written in a different clef, different key, or different octave, or any combination of these! But …
Transposing at the Octave
Transposing at the Octave We can make a melody sound mostly the same, but higher or lower, if we transpose it by one octave. This melody begins on the note G …
Bass/Treble Clef Transposition
In this lesson we will learn how a melody can be written in a different clef – from treble to bass or from bass to treble, without changing the pitch …