Motet's transposition chart
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As requested, here is the transposition chart I had posted in the old MM forum, showing the Interval and Key Alter settings for most common instruments and transpositions found in the literature, plus instructions on effecting enharmonic key changes.
Read through the topic to the end for future versions.
Read through the topic to the end for future versions.
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Right--the point of the chart is to fill in Finale's transposition dialog correctly. Clefs are a different subject.
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OHHH, it took me a minute to get what you meant. The only reason I got it was because I played trumpet in 5th grade and the written notes were transposed a major 2nd up from the trumpet's sound.
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The flauto piccolo in G was an instrument used in Mozart's time and appearing in his Entführing aus dem Serail. The notes in the Neue Mozart Ausgabe say that it sounds a twelfth above what was written, but it's confusing. In some pieces that appears to be so, but in the overture it seems impossibly high. He writes an F three ledger lines above the staff, which would translate to the highest C on a piano and would double the violins two octaves higher.
Does anyone have experience with this instrument?
Does anyone have experience with this instrument?
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In light of a discussion in another thread, I've added Chromatic Transposition settings to my chart (the numbers one uses are different from Key Signature transposition).
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Thank you, motet.
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A little better wording in a few places; no new information:
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I know this not about transposition, but about a possibly related chart that I've been looking for.
Does anyone know of a comprehensive chart of instrument names and their most common abbreviations in the major languages (Italian, English, German, French)?
I've found something on the net, but nothing really comprehensive, or very reliable, so far.
Perhaps I should say instruments in fairly frequent use in traditional and contemporary music, not the entire ocean of percussion and ethnic instruments.
Does anyone know of a comprehensive chart of instrument names and their most common abbreviations in the major languages (Italian, English, German, French)?
I've found something on the net, but nothing really comprehensive, or very reliable, so far.
Perhaps I should say instruments in fairly frequent use in traditional and contemporary music, not the entire ocean of percussion and ethnic instruments.
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Do you mean this web site ?Anders Hedelin wrote:… I've found something on the net, but nothing really comprehensive, or very reliable, so far …
https://www.fransabsil.nl/htm/instrum.htm
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I'll have to check this more thoroughly.Peter Thomsen wrote:Do you mean this web site ?Anders Hedelin wrote:… I've found something on the net, but nothing really comprehensive, or very reliable, so far …
https://www.fransabsil.nl/htm/instrum.htm
Possibly I could add Swedish anf Finnish. (Just kidding.)motet wrote:Maybe you could mine that and start your own, and add Spanish or Czech or whatever.
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I made a little spreadsheet with this data:
1 Concert Pitch To hear: C C# Db D D# Eb E F F# Gb G G# Ab A A# Bb B
Write:
2 Bb Instruments D D# Eb E F F# Gb G G# Ab A A# Bb B C C# Db
3 Eb Instruments A A# Bb B C C# Db D D# Eb E F F# Gb G G# Ab
4 F Instruments G G#Ab A A#Bb B C C#Db D D# Eb E F F#Gb
To hear the note on line 1 write the note on line 2,3, 4 as appropriate.
I colored the cells to make it visual and printed it out.
Add lines for other transpositions to taste.
I hope it lines up on y'alls computer, but you get my drift.
1 Concert Pitch To hear: C C# Db D D# Eb E F F# Gb G G# Ab A A# Bb B
Write:
2 Bb Instruments D D# Eb E F F# Gb G G# Ab A A# Bb B C C# Db
3 Eb Instruments A A# Bb B C C# Db D D# Eb E F F# Gb G G# Ab
4 F Instruments G G#Ab A A#Bb B C C#Db D D# Eb E F F#Gb
To hear the note on line 1 write the note on line 2,3, 4 as appropriate.
I colored the cells to make it visual and printed it out.
Add lines for other transpositions to taste.
I hope it lines up on y'alls computer, but you get my drift.
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Here again is the latest version of this chart (April 2020). For some reason, some of the previous attachments have been deleted.
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ewindels inspired me to change "baritone oboe" to the more common English term, "bass oboe." That's the only change.
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