Software for Transposing

[Neal]

There are inexpensive notation programs which can do this, and nearly any
will. I'll look for a few.

But, seriously, the best bet is to learn both ways to do it. I rarely have
to play trombone in alto, tenor, trebleclef-Bb, or anything but bass clef
and treble-clef-C these days, but I have so many doors open to me that
aren't open to others because I can do it.

Alistair McInnes wrote in message <7drnbq$48q$2...@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>...
>I have a trombone-playing friend who has joined a brass band. The music he
>has to play is in treble clef, but he can only read bass clef. Can you
>recommend a Win95 program (preferably freeware/shareware), which will
>transpose trombone treble clef parts into bass clef?
>
>Many thanks
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[Alistair McInnes]

[Jon Vision]

In article <7drnbq$48q$2...@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>, "Alistair McInnes"
<alis...@mcinnes7.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

i'd say he'd be in better shape to just learn treble clef!

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[Jan R Øien]

I didn't know hove to play the treble clef, but I learned it, and I have
never regretted it, you can play much more stuff that way. (Brass band,
duets, small brass notation etc)

Go one and learn.
The best way is to start on one single note, and learn it. Then the rest
are out there.

Go on!!

Jan R Oeien
Bass-trombone
Vinstra
Norway
Neal skrev i meldingen <7ds5mm$a0n$1...@autumn.news.rcn.net>...

>There are inexpensive notation programs which can do this, and nearly any
>will. I'll look for a few.
>
>But, seriously, the best bet is to learn both ways to do it. I rarely have
>to play trombone in alto, tenor, trebleclef-Bb, or anything but bass clef
>and treble-clef-C these days, but I have so many doors open to me that
>aren't open to others because I can do it.
>
>Alistair McInnes wrote in message <7drnbq$48q$2...@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>...

[Erik Tkal]

I learned when I was very young - but on the piano. On trombone I have no problem with
treble clef. I do have lots of trouble with tenor clef and alto clef on the other hand...
;-)

--
Erik Tkal
et...@ibm.net

"Out the token ring, through the router, down the fiber, off
a switch, past the firewall, down the T1 ... nothing but Net."

[The Martin]

Why cann't people just answer questions????

My answer:

Try ENCORE (no free/share ware I'm sorry), it's a nice program (allthough I
use the win 3.11 version)

You can transpose, make it play the tune.

You only need a lot of patience to click in the notes, but it works
allright.

Greetings,

*:o)
The Martin

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[Jürgen Krauß]

Alistair McInnes schrieb in Nachricht <7drnbq$48q$2...@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>...

>I have a trombone-playing friend who has joined a brass band. The music he
>has to play is in treble clef, but he can only read bass clef. Can you
>
>

As Jon wrote: best is learning treble clef (in bflat), it's similar to tenor
ckef in C which you may need in classical pieces.

Juergen.

[V ANDERSON]

Jürgen Krauß wrote in message <7du2hg$7cc$1...@news03.btx.dtag.de>...

>As Jon wrote: best is learning treble clef (in bflat), it's similar to
tenor
>ckef in C which you may need in classical pieces.
>
>Juergen.
>

Just make sure that when you read the Bb treble clef part as a tenor clef
part that you add 2 flats to the key signature (example: key of C becomes
Bb, key of F becomes Eb, key of G becomes F).
Debbie

[Neal]

The Martin wrote in message <7dti6b$hu0$1...@news2.xs4all.nl>...

>Why cann't people just answer questions????

Because I for one want to find the best answer.

>
>My answer:
>
>Try ENCORE (no free/share ware I'm sorry), it's a nice program (allthough I
>use the win 3.11 version)

Not the best answer. I paid many hundreds for it. It is absolutely
inappropriate for someone who is looking for freeware.

The Catholics do that too - all religions, really - give a poor answer just
to have one.

We're trombonists - we're better than that!

[Tom Ciaramitaro]

Alistair McInnes wrote:
>
> I have a trombone-playing friend who has joined a brass band. The music he
> has to play is in treble clef, but he can only read bass clef. Can you

> recommend a Win95 program (preferably freeware/shareware), which will
> transpose trombone treble clef parts into bass clef?
>

> Many thanks

There is a program called 'Midi Scan' that allows your scanner to take
the music into it and work it over. It comes with something called
'Lime' that is able to transpose the music once scanned.

I've not tried it for reliability yet, although a friend has started and
so far so good. I believe he paid about $250 for it. Not free, but
other music notation programs would require note by note input, so the
time invested there makes $250 sound reasonable.
=Tom

[Harry Wootan]

Yes, if you can't scan the music, then you've got to input it a note
at a time. If you're doing that, you might as well just write the
transposed note name on the original (in pencil, of course).

I've not heard a lot of good about MidiScan. Does it work now? You may
have to go back and compare note by note to be sure it scanned
properly. And you'll need to be sure your original is nice and clean
with no extra markings.

But that's a possibility (though not free).

-- Harry

Tom Ciaramitaro <tomc...@earthlink.net> wrote:

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[Kaucher]

Noteworthy Composer has a shareware version available for download. But you
still have the note-by-note entry problem. Of course, in the time it takes to
input one tune you can learn a new clef. The best software is that which you
install between your ears.

Craig Kaucher
Chicago

Craig Kaucher
Chicago