Transposing

    
Transposing    10:11 on Sunday, August 19, 2007          

Thanetlearner
(8 points)
Posted by Thanetlearner

Can someone please help me. I have several pieces of music for vocal that I want to be able to play on the clarinet. Can someone please tell me how I go about transposing it? If for example it is C major - how do I rewrite it to sound ok on the clarinet??

Thanking you


Re: Transposing    15:50 on Sunday, August 19, 2007          

laeta_puella
(344 points)
Posted by laeta_puella

do you want just to play the music on a clarinet, or to play it while someone sings? if you just want to play it alone on clarinet, you don't really need to transpose it- just play what's written, and it will just sound in a different key. but it'd sound fine.
if you want to play with someone singing in teh original key, though, you'll need to take everything up a whole step- clarinet plays in Bb, meaning when you look at the music and it says "C", it'd match the Bb on a piano, voice, or other concert pitch instrument. so take everything up a whole step on the clarinet to sound at the intended pitch.
C->D, E->F#, Ab->Bb, et cetera.




Re: Transposing    04:53 on Monday, October 8, 2007          

alxx
(60 points)
Posted by alxx

I'm just learning to transpose at the moment.
Problem I'm having is to know when to put in flats and sharps.



Re: Transposing    10:57 on Monday, October 8, 2007          

clariguy
(3 points)
Posted by clariguy

A simple way to transpose a concert pitch score into a clarinet one(Bb) is simply to add 2 sharps or take away 2 flats from the key signature

Bb,Eb would become a C major(no sharps or flats)
F# would become F#,C#,G#
Bb would become F# (take 1 flat and add 1 sharp)

Then play the notes 1 note higher following the changed key signature.

C becomes D
D becomes E....


Re: Transposing    01:43 on Thursday, October 11, 2007          

alxx
(60 points)
Posted by alxx

Thanks, that helps a lot.


Re: Transposing    01:43 on Thursday, October 11, 2007          

alxx
(60 points)
Posted by alxx

Thanks, that helps a lot.


   




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