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	transposing instrument - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		TRANSPOSING INSTRUMENT [transposing instrument] a musical instrument whose part in a score is written at a different pitch than that actually sounded.
		Such an instrument is usually referred to by the keynote of its natural scale—the clarinet in A, for example—in which case A is sounded when the tone C appears in the musical notation.
		Transposing instruments were necessary in the 17th and 18th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-transpos.html (251 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for transposing
		transposing instrument TRANSPOSING INSTRUMENT [transposing instrument] a musical instrument whose part in a score is written at a different pitch than that actually sounded.
		English horn ENGLISH HORN [English horn] musical instrument, the alto of the oboe family, pitched a fifth lower than the oboe and treated as a transposing instrument.
		The instruments possessing these general characteristics may be referred to as the oboe family, which includes the English horn, the bassoon, and the contrabassoon or
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=transposing (645 words)

	The French Horn
		But as a transposing instrument, the double horn is considered to be "in F"; music for the instrument is usually written in F, allowing individual players to choose whether to use the F or the B flat "side" of the instrument for any given note.
		The modern instrument is descended from earlier brass instruments that were used for centuries in Europe for military and hunting purposes.
		When instrument makers and players were settling on which of the many instruments (Horn in D? In E flat?) to use for the modern valved horn, the F horn was originally chosen as having a particularly full, moderate, and pleasing sound.
	cnx.org /content/m11617/latest (1854 words)

	What kind of an instrument saxophone? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The saxophone or sax is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet.
		The inspiration for the instrument is unknown, but there is good evidence that fitting a clarinet mouthpiece to an ophicleide is the most likely origin.
		The alto saxophone is a transposing instrument and reads the treble clef in the key of E-flat (that is to say, a written C for the alto will sound as E-flat concert, a major sixth lower).
	www.easterncorner.com /library/instrument_saxophone.htm (744 words)

	NWCForum - MIDI notes and acoustic notes
		Their parts are easy to read compared to other transposing instruments because they're in the same key as the nontransposing instruments.
		The definition of "transposing instruments" in the New Grove begins: "Instruments for which the music is not notated at the actual pitch of the sound, but is transposed upwards or downwards by some specific musical interval.
		Transposition is traditionally reckoned relative to the pitch C; an instrument 'in C' is non-transposing (or transposing by an exact number of octaves), and an instrument, for example, 'in F' sounds F when C is notated." The parenthetical case covers guitars et al.
	www.noteworthysoftware.com /nwcforum/1498.htm (650 words)

	Transposing Instruments
		This means that the part for the transposing instrument will also be in a different key and have a different key signature than the parts for C instruments.
		The fundamental pitch of a brass instrument, on the other hand, is considered to be the fundamental of the harmonic series it plays when no valves are being used.
		Baritone and Euphonium - These instruments are pitched in B flat, and may or may not be treated as a transposing instrument.
	cnx.org /content/m10672/latest (1515 words)

	Transposing Instruments
		Instruments for which the music is written higher or lower than it sounds by a known or stated interval.
		Stringed instruments are rarely transposing (an exception is the violino piccolo).
		There are, however, some cases where knowledge of the transposing instrument is assumed, as with the cor anglais (English horn), the interval (a fifth lower than written) here being always the same, whereas on clarinet, horn, trumpet, saxophone, etc. this is far from being the case.
	www.geocities.com /poeticcomposer/transposing-instruments.html (813 words)

	Instruments-2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These instruments were extremely simple in construction, consisting of a cylindrical tube with a cork stopper in one end, a blow hole and six finger holes.
		This new instrument has received only a few relatively unimportant modifications throughout the 20th century and it is a tribute to his genius that Boehm's flute will remain unchanged into the 21st century.
		It was a widely used instrument during this period due to its ease of handling, its wide tonal range, and the ease of playing the scales.
	www.ncconsort.org /ncconsort/Music/instruments-2.htm (3053 words)

	Trombone
		The trombone is of ancient origin; the slide, or the principle of elongating a brass instrument by tubes within tubes, has been credited to Tyrataeus in 685 B.C. The advantage of the trombone over all other brass instruments is the possibility of perfect intonation in its entire range, because of the slide.
		This is the instrument the length of the tenor trombone, with the additional tubing of the bass trombone installed in the bell section.
		Instruments smaller than this, having a bell diameter of eight and one-half inches and a bore of.547 inches must be considered large-bore tenor trombones with F attachments.
	abbakiwi.tripod.com /id11.html (1391 words)

	Transposing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is nothing about the instrument itself that makes it a "transposing instrument." It is simply the convention that's used to go from the music written on the page to the pitch that's played.
		I should mention that some instruments transpose by an octave simply to make the notes work well on a particular clef.
		My trombone is a non-transposing instrument simply because in fourth grade Miss Fischer taught me to play a concert C when I see a C written on the page.
	members.cox.net /jazztrombone/transposing.htm (581 words)

	Common Musical Instruments Used In Jazz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The instrument emerged in three sections--the cylindrical head joint, the middle joint, and the foot joint with inverse conical bore--and had six finger holes plus one closed key for D sharp in the foot section.
		The instrument is classified technically as a lip-vibrated aerophone, characterized by a conical bore and funnel-shaped mouthpiece, as opposed to the cylindrical bore and cup-shaped mouthpiece of the TRUMPET family.
		The instruments fit well into bands, for their sound blends well with brass and woodwind instruments; their application to the orchestra has been more limited, because saxophones tend to dominate the varied tonal characteristics of that ensemble.
	www.nw-cybermall.com /jazzworld/common_musical_instruments.htm (4104 words)

	Niibori guitars and other instruments - a transposing guide
		And sometimes the duets are a disaster because their instrument is a transposing instrument.
		A transposing instrument sounds a different note to the note on the page.
		Music for an orchestral solo instrument often comes with a piano accompaniment which is already transposed to suit a non-key-changing instrument like a guitar.
	www.hago.org.uk /faqs/other-instruments.html (250 words)

	Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Transposition
		Transposing up or down one or more octaves is the simplest form of transposition because all the notes retain their original note names.
		A transposing instrument is a musical instrument where what is written is not what is heard, i.e.
		It should be understood that transposing instruments are not themselves peculiar, only that the convention employed when writing parts for such instruments differs from that used for non-transposing instruments where, subject to a transposition of one or more octaves, the written note is the same as the note heard.
	www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory19.htm (1261 words)

	Euphonium
		A brass instrument of the tuba family, smaller and higher in pitch than a tuba, with a range of B-flat below the bass clef to B-flat in the treble clef.
		This instrument is mostly used in concert bands and military bands.
		A very mellow and smooth tone is produced from the instrument without the pitch problems that occurred and plagued the Wagner tubas, but the euphonium is only used to replace the tenor tuba.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/texte/Euphonium.html (198 words)

	guitars and transposition - a FAQ
		It's an instrument for which the pitch of the sounded note is different from the pitch of the notated note.
		The string quartet isn't - the instruments have different clefs and pitches of strings, but notated C is sounded C. The recorder consort isn't - the same finger patterns correspond to different printed notes.
		However, C on most instruments corresponds to "no fingers" or "all fingers", and guitarists tend to classify the guitars by what note comes out when their "no fingers" note - the open top string (always written in the top space of the treble clef) is played.
	www.hago.org.uk /faqs/transposition.html (781 words)

	The Straight Dope: Why are saxophones made in different keys?
		The tenor saxophonist would have to transpose to D for the instruments to be sounding the same tone.
		On a tenor saxophone, which is known as a "transposing" instrument, everything is shifted down a tone (well, actually a tone plus an octave, but let's not quibble).
		On instruments like the sax and the cornet, however, the notes are obtained by various combinations of valves scattered all over the instrument.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a1_319b.html (570 words)

	NWCForum - I'm confused, how do I transpose for Bari sax and Alto sax
		Bb instruments will always be transposed to a key signature that has two less flats or two more sharps than nontransposing instruments such as flutes or trombones.
		The instruments of the sax, clarinet, and saxhorn family (cornet, alto horn, baritone horn, tuba, etc) overlap in their ranges in such a way that it makes for easier arranging of the voices without putting any one instrument at the extreme of its range.
		IF there were only instruments built in C, the symphonic band and orchestra would have a much thinner sound, and it would be more difficult to write for the instruments, trying to not put them in difficult ranges.
	www.noteworthysoftware.com /nwcforum/3282.htm (2891 words)

	TRANS - transposing instrument
		When transposing up, then, it must consume more than outdur seconds of samples, and this means that it's possible to run off the end of the input file.
		It also means that you can use this instrument only with input from a sound file, not with a real-time input (microphone or aux bus) -- at least not without hearing clicks.
		This transposes the left channel of the stereo input file down by two semitones, starting at a point 2 seconds from the beginning of the file and continuing for 4 seconds.
	music.columbia.edu /cmc/RTcmix/docs/instruments/TRANS.html (486 words)

	Andrew's Brass Instruments Page
		They are one of the oldest instruments on the Earth, and have maintained a steady role as loud fanfare instruments.
		Transposing instrument, notated in treble clef, and bass clef for low range pre-Twentieth century.
		This instrument never made it into the classical world, due to its cylindrical bore and thinner sound, but occupies an important place in the tenor range of the brass family.
	www.andrewbatterham.com /Brass (1170 words)

	Clarinet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The instrument most commonly used today is known as the B-flat clarinet; the next most common is the clarinet in A. The B-flat clarinet is about 60 cm (23.6 in) long and has a range of more than three octaves.
		The clarinet is a transposing instrument--its part in the score is written at a different pitch from the one actually sounded.
		The use of a register key can then cause the instrument to sound its third harmonic and contribute the notes of the higher register.
	hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu /hbase/music/clarinet.html (715 words)

	minstrel: Re: minstrel digest, Vol 1 #127 - 3 msgs
		That means that when a recorderist reads a C, he or she plays a concert C (that is, what the pianist will think is a C) whether it's an F recorder or a C recorder.
		Multiple instruments on one "chair" is pretty common in musical theatre, for example, and I'm guessing it's common other places as well -- frequently the parts for a couple different reed/woodwind instruments will be combined into one book or one musician will have two or three books on his or her stand.
		So what most whistle/simple-flute players (whomIhaveobserved) (appearto) do is to read C sheet music and transpose in their heads and/or read-by-intervals on an instrument chosen to fit the key of the tune.
	www.pbm.com /pipermail/minstrel/2002/005452.html (2046 words)

	transposing instrument — FactMonster.com
		English horn - English horn, musical instrument, the alto of the oboe family, pitched a fifth lower than the oboe...
		Fundamentally a metal tube of narrow conical bore, it...
		trumpet - trumpet, brass wind musical instrument of part cylindrical, part conical bore, in the shape of a...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0849290.html (241 words)

	Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music \| Vol. 6 No. 2 \| Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The consequences lead to an elimination of the violone, because it, “as a transposing instrument” (Bonta, “From Violone”, 75), is considered unsuitable for eight-foot functions.
		This is a problem that anyone dealing with ancient instruments must face, time and again, whenever the researcher is confronted either by illustrations of ancient instruments or by the instruments themselves.
		Unless one can resurrect the maker of each instrument, or a contemporary who played it, and ask him what name he had in mind as he made it or played it, to name each as Planyavsky does is a reckless exercise in wishful thinking that no trained scholar would ever be guilty of.
	sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu /jscm/v6/no2/Bonta.html (2278 words)

	Transposition (music) - Simple English Wikipedia
		If you play an instrument, especially the piano or organ, it can be useful to be able to transpose.
		For example: if the music is written in the key of C major you could transpose it down one tone so that it sounds in B flat major.
		It is a good idea for people who play keyboard instruments or transposing instruments to practise transposing.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transposition_(music) (349 words)

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