![]() transposed up a ninth).įor these instruments which are both transposed and octave-displaced, not only are the notes transposed, but the clef in the transposed part is changed in the parts to facilitate readability.įinale provides a transposition option to display a different clef in the part, and in fact, for instruments like the Bass Clarinet and Baritone sax, does this automatically.įinale handles (1) instruments at concert pitch, (2) transposed instruments without octave displacement and (3) transposing instruments with octave displacement beautifully, allowing you to show and play back your scores in either concert pitch or transposed view. In Finale 2011 and earlier, the Transposition settings are part of the Staff Attributes.Īs mentioned in the previous post “ Concert Pitch, Transposing and Octave-Displaced Instruments : A Prelude“, the transpositions for some instruments are so far away from concert pitch, that in addition to being transposed by some interval, they are also octave-displaced.Įxamples of these are Baritone Saxophone or ContraAlto Clarinet (These Eb instruments sound an octave and a sixth lower than written), and Bass Clarinet or Tenor Saxophone (These Bb instruments sound an octave and a Major second lower than written – e.g. ![]() In Finale 2012 and later, this is found in the Score Manager>Instrument List. Take a look at Finale’s Transposition feature. Let’s talk about instrument transposition for a moment, because it ties in with our discussion about octave displacement. We’ll cover how to do the first three of these in this tutorial. ![]() To create Concert Pitch scores in Finale that use the modern clef convention, we need four things to work together: (1) the correct display of the notation at written pitch in a concert score, (2) correct display at written pitch in the parts, (3) playback at the proper pitches in the score, whether concert pitch or transposing, and (4) regular clefs (not octave clefs) in both the score and parts. So, let’s see how we can bring our Finale Concert Scores up to date… Alas, support for regular clefs for octave-displaced instruments in Concert Scores for Finale was not to be at least not this year. Like a lot of pro level Finale users, I was hoping to see an enhancement feature for Octave-Displaced Instruments at Written Pitch in Concert Scores as part of the Finale 2014 update. If you think about it, the convention of written pitches makes a great deal of sense The Glockenspiel sounds two octaves (15ma) above where written the highest written note for Glockenspiel, C above the staff, requires nine (9) ledger lines to display at concert pitch!įinale supports the older convention of “ octave clefs” for these instruments displaying a small 8 (representing one octave) above or below the treble or bass clef. Reading a full score is complicated enough without forcing the conductor to always count ledger lines!Īdditionally, in modern scores, It is understood that instruments such as the piccolo, guitar, contrabassoon and contrabass sound an octave above or below where written, and so the small reminder number 8 (or 15 if two octaves) above or below the treble or bass clef has fallen out of popular use. mostly within the staff, rather than requiring numerous ledger lines. The current convention for scores in Concert Pitch specifies that instruments which transpose at the octave-only be displayed at their written pitches, e.g. Examples of octave-displaced instruments are Glockenspiel, Piccolo, Guitar and Contrabass. Instruments which are not considered “transposed” per se, but written in a different octave than where they sound are referred to as octave-displaced instruments. But these features would be nice.Before reading this article, please see: Concert Pitch, Transposing and Octave Displaced Instruments : A Prelude. So can either the transposition or the tuning be done in-app? Or do I need to doctor the tabs myself on my PC? Either way, a GP app is leagues more convenient than dragging my guitar over to my PC every time I want to learn a song. ![]() I care about all this because I keep my guitar in baritone tuning and so I often transpose down songs written for higher tunings. But the transposition doesn’t need to be perfect. I know you can’t edit in the app, meaning I’d be stuck with GP’s occasionally sloppy transposed fingerings. But I want to change the tuning of the existing guitars in an imported tab. Regarding tuning, I see where you can specify the tuning of a new instrument in Notepad. It also doesn’t change the tab fingerings to reflect the new notes. There is a transpose feature, but it affects the entire song, not individual tracks. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to adequately transpose or change tunings. Hey! I’ve been using GP for years and I just got my hands on the iOS app.
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