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2. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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   An increasing number of new carillons have been installed in concert pitch as a result of the desire to establish the carillon as a full-fledged concert instrument. [3] Celesta: C 5: Clarinet A ♭ clarinet: A ♭ 4: E ♭ clarinet: E ♭ 4: D clarinet: D 4: B soprano clarinet: B 3: B ♭ clarinet: B ♭ 3: A soprano clarinet: A 3: Basset ...

3. Concert pitch - Wikipedia

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   Concert pitch is the pitch reference to which a group of musical instruments are tuned for a performance. Concert pitch may vary from ensemble to ensemble, and has varied widely over time. The ISO defines international standard pitch as A440 , setting 440 Hz as the frequency of the A above middle C .

4. 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 ...

5. B-flat major - Wikipedia

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   Many transposing instruments are pitched in B-flat major, including the clarinet, trumpet, tenor saxophone, and soprano saxophone. As a result, B-flat major is one of the most popular keys for concert band compositions.

6. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   The guitar is a transposing instrument; that is, music for guitars is notated one octave higher than the true pitch.This is to reduce the need for ledger lines in music written for the instrument, and thus simplify the reading of notes when playing the guitar.

7. C (musical note) - Wikipedia

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   In vocal music, the term High C (sometimes called Top C [5]) can refer to either the soprano's C 6 (1046.502 Hz; c ′ ′ ′ in Helmholtz notation) or the tenor's C 5; soprano written as the C two ledger lines above the treble clef, with the tenor voice the space above concert A, sung an octave lower. Sometimes written with “8v” below the ...

8. Scientific pitch notation - Wikipedia

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   Scientific pitch notation is often used to specify the range of an instrument. It provides an unambiguous means of identifying a note in terms of textual notation rather than frequency, while at the same time avoiding the transposition conventions that are used in writing the music for instruments such as the clarinet and guitar.

9. 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 ...