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  2. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    Since they are seldom played in concert with other instruments and carillonneurs need standardized sheet music, carillons often transpose to a variety of keys—whichever is advantageous for the particular installation; many transposing carillons weigh little, have many bells, or were constructed on limited funds. [2]

  3. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    Diatonic transposition is scalar transposition within a diatonic scale (the most common kind of scale, indicated by one of a few standard key signatures). For example, transposing the pitches C 4 –E 4 –G 4 up two steps in the familiar C major scale gives the pitches E 4 –G 4 –B 4.

  4. Transposing instrument - Wikipedia

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    Common examples are clarinets (the high E ♭ clarinet, soprano instruments in C, B ♭ and A, the alto in E ♭, and the bass in B ♭), flutes (the piccolo, transposing at the octave, the standard concert-pitch flute, and the alto flute in G), saxophones (in several octaves in B ♭ and E ♭), and trumpets (the common instrument in B ...

  5. Capo (musical device) - Wikipedia

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    Spring clamp capo A guitar capo with a lever-operated over-centre locking action clamp Demonstrating the peg removal feature on an Adagio guitar capo. A capo (/ ˈ k eɪ p oʊ ˌ k æ-ˌ k ɑː-/ KAY-poh, KAH-; short for capodastro, capo tasto or capotasto [ˌkapoˈtasto], Italian for "head of fretboard") [a] is a device a musician uses on the neck of a stringed (typically fretted) instrument ...

  6. Barre chord - Wikipedia

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    Using the barre technique, the guitarist can fret a familiar open chord shape, and then transpose, or raise, the chord a number of half-steps higher, similar to the use of a capo. For example, when the current chord is an E major and the next is an F ♯ major, the guitarist barres the open E major up two frets (two semitones) from the open ...

  7. Mode of limited transposition - Wikipedia

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    Modes of limited transposition are musical modes or scales that fulfill specific criteria relating to their symmetry and the repetition of their interval groups. These scales may be transposed to all twelve notes of the chromatic scale , but at least two of these transpositions must result in the same pitch classes , thus their transpositions ...

  8. Set theory (music) - Wikipedia

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    This means that, for example a major triad and a minor triad are considered the same set. Western tonal music for centuries has regarded major and minor, as well as chord inversions, as significantly different. They generate indeed completely different physical objects. Ignoring the physical reality of sound is an obvious limitation of atonal ...

  9. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    The advantage of these tunings is that they allow an extended upper note range versus a capo used with standard tuning which limits the number of notes that can be played; in some cases, instruo B ♭ or E ♭ (such as saxophones, which were frequently encountered in early rock and roll music) are more easily played when the accompanying guitar ...