transposable
(adjective)
Able to be transposed (in any sense).
Examples of transposable in the following topics:
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Avoiding Transposition
- A good electronic keyboard will transpose for you.
- However, if you only have the music on paper, it may be easier to transpose it yourself than to enter it into a music program to have it transposed.
- So if none of these situations apply to you, it's time to learn to transpose.
- Note: If you play a chordal instrument (guitar, for example), you may not need to write down the transposed music.
- There are instructions below for transposing just the names of the chords.
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Why Transpose?
- Instrumentalists with transposing instruments will usually need any part they play to be properly transposed before they can play it.
- Clarinet, French horn, saxophone, trumpet, and cornet are the most common transposing instruments.
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Transposing at Sight
- Transposing at sight means being able to read a part written in one key while playing it in another key.
- (Vocalists transpose at sight without even thinking about it, since they don't have to worry about different fingerings. ) To practice this skill, simply start playing familiar pieces in a different key.
- Or, if you play a transposing instrument, work on being able to play C parts on sight.
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Solutions to Chapter 6 Exercises
- Play the part you have transposed; your own ears will tell you where you have made mistakes.
- Transposing up a major third, to E minor, puts the song in a better range for a soprano, with a key signature that is easy for guitars.
- Transpose the notes up a perfect fifth and write the new part in treble clef.
- Then transpose the chords down one half step.
- For more on transposing chords, see Transposing Chord Names.
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Common Tones under Transposition
- It can also tell us how many common tones are retained when a set is transposed.
- Those numbers also tell us how many common tones are retained when those sets are transposed by a member of that interval class.
- Because there is a 2 in the fifth column, it will retain2 common tones when transposed by either T5 or T7.
- I've taken four arbitrary members of (027)—show on the left—and transposed them in various ways.
- When transposed by T6, it will have 2—not 1—common tones.
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Choosing Your New Key
- A very accomplished player of one of these instruments may be able to transpose at sight, saving you the trouble of writing out a transposed part, but most players of these instruments will need a transposed part written out for them.
- Transpose C parts up a perfect fifth to be read in F.
- Note: Why are there transposing instruments?
- Non-transposing parts are considered to be C parts.
- Make sure you are transposing in the correct direction.
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How to Transpose Music
- The transposition you choose will depend on why you are transposing.
- Transposing a piece in B minor down a major third will move the key signature down a major third to G minor.
- But some care must be taken to correctly transpose accidentals.
- The best practice for transposing is to transpose a piece you know well into a new key.
- Flats don't necessarily transpose as flats, or sharps as sharps.
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Mu: A Double-Stranded Transposable DNA Bacteriophage
- A transposable element (TE) is a DNA sequence that can change its relative position (self-transpose) within the genome of a single cell.
- Shapiro in 1979, in which the transposable element is duplicated during the reaction, so that the transposing entity is a copy of the original element.
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Transposition
- In post-tonal music, transposition is often associated with motion: Take a chord, motive, melody, and when it is transposed, the aural effect is of moving that chord, motive, or melody in some direction.
- The opening motive—comprising the notes B, D, E, or {11, 2, 4}—is transposed four semitones higher in m. 18, representing the cathedral's slow ascent above the water.
- Transposing something preserves its intervallic content, and not only that, it preserves the specific arrangement of that thing's intervals.
- To transpose something by Tn, add n to every element in that thing (mod 12).
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Transposing Chord Names
- If you are transposing entire chords, and you know the name of the chord, you may find it easier to simply transpose the name of the chord rather than transposing each individual note.
- In fact, transposing in this way is simple enough that even a musician who can't read music can do it.
- Your choice of new key will depend on why you are transposing, but it may depend on other things, also.
- If you are transposing because the music is too low or too high, decide how much higher or lower you want the music to sound.
- If you're using a chromatic circle to transpose the names of all the chords in a piece, just make sure that you move each chord name by the same amount and in the same direction.