Complete Definition of "transposition"

English

Noun
en-noun

  1. music A shift of a piece of music to a different muscial key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.

Related terms
transpose
twelve tone technique
serialism

References
DeLone? et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6.

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