Klarinet Archive - Posting 000421.txt from 2004/06

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Transposition
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 03:47:03 -0400

Hi Carol,

The short answer to your short question is yes, up one step, add two sharps.

At first I thought your message was coming through the Finale list, so I
was thinking of preparing a completely different answer. I'm embarrassed
to say that I had completed maybe two dozen accompanied pieces for clarinet
back in the mid 90s before discovering the transposition option in Finale
(I figure Sibelius has it also). That is, you pick a concert key for the
piece and the violins, violas, flutes and oboes and bassoons (and all the
other C instruments) stay in that key. The transposition option allows you
to command Bb for a staff and write out the Bb part, or conversely, to
write out a C clarinet part and at the very end, redefine the staff as a Bb
staff and the program does it for you. Then the piece plays back properly,
as opposed to how I did the first two dozen compositions by redefining a
key signature for a particular staff which ends up playing back in complete
disharmony.

Good luck!

Oliver

At 04:52 AM 6/26/2004, you wrote:

>I need to transpose a piece written for C clarinet so that I can play it on Bb
>clarinet. Do I go one step up and add 2 sharps? If not, what do I do?
>
>TIA, Carol
>
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