transpositions.... 2003-02-22 08:52 am Where might I find the steps to transpose all instruments from the piano??? For instance I know that a C on the piano is a B on the violin.... Where couldI find a list of all the steps needed to transpose my pieces to other instruments.... or add accompimets....~Jeff Quote Selected
Re: transpositions.... Reply #1 – 2003-02-22 09:14 am Here are some places to get you started. First, a search of our web site is always a good place to start:Search our web siteHere are a few prior threads on the subject that could also help:- https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=2221- https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=1649- https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=432 Quote Selected
Re: transpositions.... Reply #2 – 2003-02-22 03:37 pm ...a C on the piano is a B on the violin...only if one or the other is severely out of tune. Quote Selected
Re: transpositions.... Reply #4 – 2003-02-22 10:06 pm You know how churches hire brass players for the Midnight Mass at Xmas time? A few guys and I show up (for rehearsal, luckily) and start playing through our stuff. Then guitar player shows up to run things with us, and he is WAY out of tune. He insists that he is tuned perfectly with the piano. Well, he is, but the piano is an entire semitone flat! And he's insisting that's right, too! Never mind that six other guys are all in tune with each other ("Maybe you guys don't know how to tune your instruments" he says.), and with a tuning fork (does anybody have a tuning fork in A flat?). I had to rewrite all the parts in half an hour. Too bad I didn't have NWC back in 1981! Quote Selected
Re: transpositions.... Reply #5 – 2003-02-22 10:11 pm Maybe the guitar player was a Beatle in disguise. 'Course they tuned their instruments a half tone sharp, not flat, but the ideas the same. <G> Quote Selected
Re: transpositions.... Reply #6 – 2003-02-24 08:40 pm I thought that the violin sounded 2 semitones lower... oh well.~Jeff Quote Selected
Re: transpositions.... Reply #7 – 2003-02-25 10:30 am AFAIK, B is not a tone lower than C. Bb is.There is only a semitone between E and F, and between B and C. All the others seconds intervals are a semitone.I'm talking about C major of course! If there is something on the key signature, then the semitone are somewhere else, but always between (in major occidental scale) the 3rd and 4th notes, and 7th and 8th.Hope the compasses file linked here over helped you (it helps me a lot)! Quote Selected
Re: transpositions.... Reply #8 – 2003-02-25 02:33 pm It's possible the Original Poster had come across a manuscript which called for altered tuning on a violin or, more likely, a viola d'amore, and thought this was normal practice. A Google search on the term "scordatura" yields interesting results. Quote Selected
Re: transpositions.... Reply #9 – 2003-02-25 08:11 pm Maybe Jeff is German, where B is a tone lower than C and H is a semitone lower than C... Quote Selected
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