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Important Note About Concert Pitch
Concert Pitch/ Transposing Instruments Chart
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About Concert PitchWhat is Concert Pitch?Concert pitch is the actual sounding pitch of a note. For example, piano music is written in concert pitch. So, when a composer writes the note Middle C on a piano score, the performer plays Middle C. Instruments whose parts are written in concert pitch are referred to as non-transposing instruments. What is a Transposing Instrument?A transposing instrument is an instrument whose parts are not written in concert pitch. The parts of numerous musical instruments are written at a fixed interval above or below the actual notes played by the performer. For example, the French horn is a transposing instrument. On the French horn stave of a typical musical score, the French horn's notes are written a perfect 5th higher than they sound. Therefore, when a composer writes the note G4 (one perfect 5th above Middle C) on the French horn stave, the performer actually plays Middle C (one perfect 5th below that G4):
Any time a performer plays a note at a pitch other than the concert pitch, that performer is transposing that pitch.
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