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Author: choey
Date: 2005-01-03 22:18
i learned to play the clarinet for about half a year about a year ago. yesterday, suddenly, i'm to practice and play in my church's ensamble comprised of a piano and 2 flutes. i can read/play the notes fine but the thing is i've never played with other instruments.
the piano and the flute is in C right? but to my knowledge i have to raise a whole note on all the original notes, and subtract 2 flats/add 2 sharps. will it be pretty easy if i practice?
or is there an another way, like tuning my clarinet so that it'll play harmonically with the other instruments. i'm not sure if the clarinet can be tuned to Ab.
any suggestions will be appreciated. thanks.
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Author: Burt
Date: 2005-01-03 22:31
There's no way to avoid transposing unless you can find arrangements with both C instrument parts and Bb instrument parts. You can find these for jazz combos, but not likely for classical or sacred music. You can't re-tune the clarinet to concert key. (Some people pull way out to simulate an "A" clarinet badly, but that doesn't help your goal.)
You stated correctly what you have to do to transpose. There are tricks which might help you. For example, record yourself without transposing, use a computer (or variable speed tape deck) to raise the pitch a step; then you have something to play along with, to be sure you have the notes right.
You will find that practice transposing will make you transpose faster and more accurately. If the music has few accidentals, it's much easier than jazz or 20th century classical music. The bane of transposers is "courtesy" accidentals - accidentals which are written, but would be the same if they were not written.
Good luck, and have an enjoyable time.
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Author: choey
Date: 2005-01-03 22:39
thanks for your quick reply.
i guess i could either transpose on-the-spot or have some usual music already transposed.
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Author: John Stackpole
Date: 2005-01-03 23:21
Will some (any?) of the music notation computer programs do the transpose job for me, and print out the transposed (up) score? [Up for Bb, anyway]
If so, how is the original score input to the code?
JDS
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2005-01-03 23:23
Finale Notepad (Free) will transpose for you - just make a new document/sheet of music, add Bb Clarinet to it, and then you can select to have it at concert pitch or transposed. So, set it to concert pitch, write out the part exactly as-is, then press transpose, then press print. It's just time-consuming writing it all out, but you'll get quicker at it.
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2005-01-04 06:37
Here in Korea, Encore program(.enc) seems the thing for transposing problem. The mecanism should be the same with Finale, I think.
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: bob49t
Date: 2005-01-04 06:46
John,
My Music Publisher can scan the original (if good quality printed music).
It then recognises the image as music,
you check it for discrepancies (very few), then ask it to transpose anyway you like.
Then print it out.
Quite a few music progs can do this.
BUT I repeat original must be PRINTED GOOD QUALITY (ie not written manuscript)
Bob T
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2005-01-04 14:16
You need to have a heart-to-heart with the music director. He/she will probably be happy to transpose and write it out for you. Or, he/she will get someone to do it for you. But, if you aren't honest right up front he/she will expect you to transpose it all the time and assume you don't have a problem doing it and you'll have increasingly difficult things in the future. So, to avoid embarassment in the future, talk to her/him now.
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