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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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    In this chromatic transposition, the melody on the first line is in the key of D, while the melody on the second line is identical except that it is a major third lower, in the key of B ♭. In music , transposition refers to the process or operation of moving a collection of notes ( pitches or pitch classes ) up or down in pitch by a constant ...

  4. Dal segno - Wikipedia

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    A similar example showing DS al CODA. Play ⓘ The notes are to be played in this order: G A B B C' A B C In music notation , dal segno ( UK : / d æ l ˈ s ɛ n j oʊ / , US : / d ɑː l ˈ s eɪ n j oʊ / , Italian: [dal ˈseɲɲo] ), often abbreviated as D.S. , is used as a navigation marker.

  5. Transposing instrument - Wikipedia

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    Some instruments are constructed in a variety of sizes, with the larger versions having a lower range than the smaller ones. 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 ...

  6. Tablature - Wikipedia

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    For chords, a letter above or below the tablature staff denotes the root note of the chord, chord notation is also usually relative to a capo, so chords played with a capo are transposed. Chords may also be notated with chord diagrams. Examples of guitar tablature notation: The chords E, F, and G as an ASCII tab:

  7. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    Many scordatura tunings have been employed by various composers for individual pieces, for example: "Zoltán Kodály" tuning: B 1 F ♯ 2 D 3 A 3 "Whole step down" tuning: B ♭ 1 F 2 C 3 G 3. Celo: 4 strings celovic celloses ginga Croatia Serbia Slovenia This is the modern instrument Čelovič, 4 string 4 strings 4 courses. E 2 A 2 D 3 G 3 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Set theory (music) - Wikipedia

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    For example, musicians use the terms transposition and inversion where mathematicians would use translation and reflection. Furthermore, where musical set theory refers to ordered sets, mathematics would normally refer to tuples or sequences (though mathematics does speak of ordered sets , and although these can be seen to include the musical ...