From this workbook extract it seems that transposing instruments are always written higher than they sound, is this always true?
EXTRACT: If you compose music for any transposing instrument you have to remember the following.
- For B flat instruments the music has to be written a major 2nd higher.
- For F instruments the music has to be written a perfect 5th higher.
- For E flat instruments the music has to be written a major 6th higher.