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Author: Frosty
Date: 2003-03-27 19:20
How do you transpose parts for a Bb trumpet into Eb alto sax?
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Author: Corey
Date: 2003-03-28 02:33
To transpose this you would need to transpose up a perfect 4th I beleive. Somone correct me if i'm wrong
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Author: TorusTubarius
Date: 2003-03-28 03:36
A perfect fifth above.
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Author: Corey
Date: 2003-03-29 02:00
I beg to differ...it's a perfect fourth from Bb to Eb, it's a perfect fifith from Bb to F. Say you have an Eb soprano clarinet and the more known Bb soprano. In order for them to play the same pitch ( lets use C4- below staff) the Bb clarinet would need to play D4 and the Eb clarinet would need to play the A3 below that.That is a perfect 4th.
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Author: TorusTubarius
Date: 2003-03-29 18:13
Yes it is a perfect fourth on the way down, but when you invert a fourth you get a fifth, and that fifth up is the interval you would use to transpose from Bb clarinet to Eb alto saxophone to get the same pitch. Although it's true as you say that to go from Bb clarinet to Eb clarinet you would take everything a fourth down, doing the same with the alto sax would put every pitch an octave lower than the original part.
So to get a C4, the Bb soprano would play a D4, the Eb soprano would play an A3 a fourth below the D4, and the alto saxophone would play the A4 a fifth above the D4.
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Author: TorusTubarius
Date: 2003-03-29 18:17
Well hell I went back and looked and he was asking about Bb trumpet to Eb alto sax! How did we get started with clarinets anyway? It's still the same though, take all the Bb trumpet music up a fifth to get the same pitches on an alto sax.
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