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  2. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    In many musical contexts, transpositionally equivalent chords are thought to be similar. Transpositional equivalence is a feature of musical set theory. The terms transposition and transposition equivalence allow the concept to be discussed as both an operation and relation, an activity and a state of being. Compare with modulation and related key.

  3. Set theory (music) - Wikipedia

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    Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance 66. Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger. ISBN 0-313-32135-3. Cohn, Richard. 1992. "Transpositional Combination of Beat-Class Sets in Steve Reich's Phase-Shifting Music". Perspectives of New Music 30, no. 2 (Summer): 146–177. Forte, Allen. 1973. The Structure of Atonal Music. New Haven and London ...

  4. Combinatoriality - Wikipedia

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    Prime (transpositional) combinatoriality of a hexachord refers to the property of a hexachord whereby it forms an aggregate with one or more of its transpositions. Alternatively, transpositional combinatoriality is the lack of shared pitch classes between a hexachord and one or more of its transpositions.

  5. Transposing instrument - Wikipedia

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    A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano). For example, playing a written middle C on a transposing instrument produces a pitch other than middle C; that sounding pitch identifies the interval of ...

  6. 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]

  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 are "limited".

  8. Transposition - Wikipedia

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    Transposition (music), moving a note or collection of notes up or down in pitch by a constant number of semitones; Transposition (transmission lines), periodic swapping of positions of the conductors of a transmission line; Transposition cipher, an elementary cryptographic operation

  9. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)