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The shifting of a melody, a harmonic progression or an entire musical piece to another key, while maintaining the same tone structure, i.e. the same succession of whole tones and semitones and remaining melodic intervals.

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Are transposing instruments always written higher than they sound?

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 …
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