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  2. F major - Wikipedia

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    F major is the home key of the English horn, the basset horn, the horn in F, the trumpet in F and the bass Wagner tuba. Thus, music in F major for these transposing instruments is written in C major. These instruments sound a perfect fifth lower than written, with the exception of the trumpet in F which sounds a fourth higher.

  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. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    F 3: Mellophone: Mellophone: F 3: Oboe: F piccolo oboe: F 4: E ♭ piccolo oboe E ♭ 4: Oboe d'amore: A 3: Cor anglais F 3: Heckelphone and Bass oboe C 3: Oud: G 2: Bolahenk tuning Recorder Garklein recorder: C 6: Sopranino recorder: C 5 /F 5: Soprano recorder: C 5, formerly G 4: B ♭ Soprano recorder B ♭ 4: Alto recorder F 4: Voice flute ...

  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. Closely related key - Wikipedia

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    In the key of C major, these would be: D minor, E minor, F major, G major, A minor, and C minor. Despite being three sharps or flats away from the original key in the circle of fifths, parallel keys are also considered as closely related keys as the tonal center is the same, and this makes this key have an affinity with the original key.

  7. F-sharp major - Wikipedia

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    For orchestration of piano music, some theorists recommend transposing the music to F major or G major. If F-sharp major must be used, one should take care that B♭ wind instruments be notated in A-flat major , rather than G-sharp major (or E♮/B♮ instruments used instead, giving a transposed key of D major /G major).

  8. List of horn techniques - Wikipedia

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    Many older pieces for horn were written for a horn not keyed in F as is standard today. As a result, a requirement for modern orchestra hornists is to be able to read music directly in these keys. This is most commonly done by transposing the music on the fly into F. A reliable way to transpose is to liken the written notes (which rarely ...

  9. Key signature names and translations - Wikipedia

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    When a musical key or key signature is referred to in a language other than English, that language may use the usual notation used in English (namely the letters A to G, along with translations of the words sharp, flat, major and minor in that language): languages which use the English system include Irish, Welsh, Hindi, Japanese (based on katakana in iroha order), Korean (based on hangul in ...