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

1. Choose Window > Score Manager and click the Instrument List tab.
2. In the Instrument List, click the staff you want to change.
3. Next to the Transposition drop-down menu, choose a transposition.

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

Once you’ve established the transpositions for your instrumental staves, you can tell PrintMusic whether or not it should display the full score in its transposed form.

• Choose Document > Display in Concert Pitch. If this option is selected, all music appears in its non-transposed 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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