Klarinet Archive - Posting 000189.txt from 2002/01

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music notation software and transposition
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:57:07 -0500

There must be lots of inexpensive software progs you can go for if you are
looking to <only> transpose your music for Bb and Eb instruments.
The more sophisticated progs like Sibelius are probably not what I would
advise initially. Any good music technology shop will be able to demonstrate
the different progs on sale.

And don`t forget that the piano is NOT a transposing instrument. IT plays
what it sees, and it sounds the same as what it plays. Take the clarinet up
one tone (C to D). Take the alto sax up one sixth (C to A). Take the tenor
sax up an octave and one tone. C(defgabc)D.

There`s not an awful lot of complication in all of this - just make sure you
are understanding what the shop sales technician is explaining.
Best of luck
T.W.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Reed" <jpreed@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Music notation software and transposition

> I'm looking for something I can afford, to help me tranpose music, if
> I'm not oversimplifying what I think music software can do for me. A
> cursory search of Sneezy's files doesn't lead me where I think I want to
> go. And, I'm willing to conceed I might not have searched properly.
>
> I've played a Bb clarinet for a little more than 3 years, not learning
> rigorously due to other priorities such as a new marriage, returning to
> graduate school, etc. Recently, I joined a local New Horizons Band for
> senior citizens (one of 60 nationwide is what I'm told) and have taken
> up Eb and Bb saxes due to their shortage of saxophonists and an
> off-setting surplus of clarinetists. My wife started playing piano a
> little more than a year ago and we're both functioning around, as best I
> understand it, Level 1 or 2 music and trying to play simple pieces
> together for our own pleasure. With that as background, we've got a
> mixture of piano, clarinet, and sax music I'd like to be able to
> transpose for all 3 instruments, if possible - not knowing whether it is
> or not makes this easy to ask.
>
> While I read software descriptions which talk about transposition and
> then I look at price differences between professional applications and
> shareware, I still don't have a clear idea on where to start. Would I
> be best off trying to use Lime, MusicTime, NoteWorthy or something
> similar which I can afford? Or, do I need to give up this idea until I
> can considering affording something like Finale or Sibelius? Or, am I
> liable to get in over my amateur head with trying to transpose music for
> C, Bb, and Eb instruments?

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