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  2. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    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: D 4, formerly A 3: Tenor recorder: C 4, formerly G 3: Basset recorder F 3: Bass recorder: C 3: When notated in treble clef Great bass recorder: F 2: Contrabass recorder C 2: Saxhorns: Flugelhorn: B ♭ 3: Tenor ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Transposition (music) - Wikipedia

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    Seven clefs are used for this: treble (2nd line G-clef), bass (4th line F-clef), baritone (3rd line F-clef or 5th line C-clef, although in France and Belgium sight-reading exercises for this clef, as a preparation for clef transposition practice, are always printed with the 3rd line F-clef), and C-clefs on the four lowest lines; these allow any ...

  5. 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.

  6. List of horn techniques - Wikipedia

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    However, playing a 3rd space C (F-horn, open) and repeating the stopped horn, the pitch will lower a half-step to a B-natural (or 1/2 step above B ♭, the next lower partial). The hand horn technique developed in the classical period, with music pieces requiring the use of covering the bell to various degrees to lower the pitch accordingly.

  7. 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.

  8. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    "Lute tuning" is usually capoed on 3rd fret to give G 2 C 3 F 3 A 3 D 4 G 4, and E 2 is often dropped to D 2 (F 2 with capo). There are hundreds of alternate guitar tunings; whole books have been written on the subject. [16] Classical Guitar: Steel String Guitar: Electric Guitar: Guitar, alto 11 strings 11 courses. B ♭ 1 C 2 D 2 E ♭ 2 F 2 G ...

  9. Common tone (scale) - Wikipedia

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    Common tones between G major and C major and between C major and F ♯ major, 6 and 1 common tones respectively. A common tone is a pitch class that is a member of, or common to, a musical scale and a transposition of that scale, as in modulation. [1]