chord identification understanding voice-leading style awareness The ToolKIT, which is accessible from all pages of the site, outlines the three main analytical skills that TonalityGUIDE.com aims to develop. It also links to a short introduction to the study of tonality as well as a reminder of some basics (note and interval labels, clefs and transpositions).

Parts for transposing instruments are therefore written to to compensate - otherwise the wrong notes would come out. Here is an example:

Instrument	Clarinet in Bb
If you wrote a C, the instrument would play ...	a Bb
So, to compensate the part is written ...	up a tone
Err ...	that's it

The only complication is that, generally speaking, while instruments in Bb, F and A transpose up (because they sound lower than the written pitch), those in D and Eb generally transpose down (because they sound higher than the written pitch).

The following example shows what you would have to write to make a c2 come out on various transposing instruments. Notice that key signatures are transposed as well (key signatures are often not written in horn parts):

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