Down an octave. Up an octave. Down a m3. Up a m3. Up a M2. Down a M2. Up a P4. Down a P4. Up a P5. Down a P5. Up a M6. Down a M6. Up a M9. Down a M9. Up an octave and a M6. However, there are some instruments you will come across when learning how to read music where the note that sounds is different from the note which is written.
These are called transposing instruments. An instrument where the note written differs from the note sounding is called a transposing instrument. All subsequent notes played on the Alto Saxophone sound a major sixth lower than written. There are lots of transposing instruments in existence, but here is a list of the most common ones you will come across:.
Beware of the octave transposers! The Guitar and Bass Guitar both of which sound an octave lower than written are 2 really common examples of this, as are the Glockenspiel and Recorder both sound 2 octaves higher than written. A tenor player does not need to relearn the fingering if he or she switches to alto. Practicality is certainly the main reason. The most popular instrument of the last 50 years, the guitar, does not sound as it is written: the guitar sounds one octave lower than written.
If it wasn't, guitarists would need to read bass and treble clefs like the piano. This would make reading for the guitar very difficult indeed. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What are the practical reasons for still having transposing instruments? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 1 month ago. Active 5 months ago. Viewed 53k times. Improve this question. Related: music. Both clefs now read the same and middle c maintains its position. I would have thought it was about keeping as many notes on the staff as possible, but then I remember when I played the string bass part in a band in high school and all the music I was handed lived ledger lines below the staff Brass instruments had no fingering in those days.
Also, the pipes were brass, not lead. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The TL;DR answer: Some instrument families saxophones, clarinets, double reeds have variants which change the instrument range by something other than an octave.
To make it easy to switch between instruments in the same family, the parts for these instruments are transposed so the same written note has the same fingering, but produces a different actual pitch.
Even when the range of two possible tunings of an instrument are basically the same, the two tunings are often kept around for instruments like woodwinds where playing in a key too far removed from the instrument's "native key" is difficult. The pieces for these alternate tunings are transposed for the same reason as the previous point easier to switch.
The longer answer: First, although there has been considerable standardization of instruments, and most orchestral instruments can now play chromatically, many instruments in the modern orchestra are variants of an instrument normally taught to beginners; most clarinetists learn to make their first squeaks on a Bb soprano clarinet, and then candidates are typically culled from that group to play the alto and bass clarinets, with a few occasionally given a piccolo clarinet.
Improve this answer. KeithS KeithS 7, 26 26 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. That's why middle C is so named": this is a popular and enduring myth, but it is a myth.
The bass clef was standardized long before the grand staff was. Modern classical performance involves playing lots of music written for instruments with traditional transpositions. Artisinal instrument manufacturers have been perfecting the construction of these transposing instruments for generations.
Wind instruments do not play like synthesizers. The timbre has different qualities based on what part of the horn you are playing in. NReilingh NReilingh You might want to add that the clef is often shifted up an octave by putting an 8 directly above, such as with the descant recorder.
While I've never tried to play 7-octave handbell music, I've seen it, and have thought that it would be clearer if there were another staff above the treble staff.
Excellent answer,don't forget the humble guitar - an octave transposer. I think that lots of guitarists possibly aren't aware that they're playing an octave down to the written part. Yarin Thats both a bit of a joke and an advanced theory concept.
A 'partial' is a member of the harmonic series inherent in any brass instrument, which exists relative to the key of the instrument. Show 6 more comments. Regardless of the reason transposing instruments came into practice in the first place, the practice is still standard in writing circles besides the valid observation that there alr4eady exists a huge body of already-transposed repertoire is quite simple: Instruments transpose so that players of a particular instrument, or type of instrument, can play any of an entire family of their weapon of choice using the same fingering scheme.
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