Transposing instruments

Any staff can be defined to have any instrument transposition; for example, a trumpet staff can be notated up a whole step, yet PrintMusic will still play the music at concert pitch. While you’re working on the score, you can be looking at the instrumental staves either in their transposed or concert-pitch forms.

To define a staff transposition

• Click the Staff tool  , and double-click the staff handle to be transposed. The Staff Attributes dialog box appears.
• Specify the desired transposition. If there’s another staff for which you want to set the transposition, simply choose it from the Staff popup menu at the top of the dialog box.
• Click OK (or press return).

To display a score in concert pitch (or in transposed form)

Once you’ve established the transpositions for your instrumental staves as described in “To define a staff transposition,” above, you can tell PrintMusic whether or not it should display the full score in its transposed form.

• Choose Display in Concert Pitch from the Document menu. If this option is selected, all music appears in its untransposed form (concert pitch) and a checkmark appears next to the menu item. When this option isn’t selected, any staff you’ve defined as a transposing staff will appear in its transposed form, just as it will when the part is extracted.

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