If you tell the kids one thing in the band room and another in the theory class, their heads will explode and they're likely to switch majors to phys ed. I based this on your statement that the piece was in E-Major concert, for which the proper transposed alto sax part MUST be in C# Major.
However, my point was that those beginner students you are worried about will be even MORE confused if you start throwing the wrong key at them. There is truth in that but because of historical inertia, we're well and truly stuck with an absurd system, and have to make the best of it. To create the key signature, follow the instructions here: Įspecially for beginner students who have little understanding of this concept it makes things unnecessarily confusing for them. In that dialogue, select diminished seventh as the transposition to play for that instrument, click apply, and you'll see what you want.īut it will be musically wrong, and will confuse the conductor and alto sax players.ĮTA: In addition, this too will affect the entire piece, so if you later modulate from E-Major concert to, say, D-Major, your alto sax piece will wind up notated in C-flat major-seven flats.ĮTA2: You can create a custom key signature for F-flat major, if you want to go that way, but playback isn't supported. Right click on the alto sax staff, then select 'staff properties'. You can, however, 'bully' the program into transposing an E-Major concert piece into Db Major by manually changing the transposition to be played in the staff properties dialogue. C is a sixth above E D is a seventh, and while a transposition of a diminished 7th would sound the same notes as that of a major sixth (in today's temperament), the difference in note name implies something completely different musically. The program is doing the correct transposition to instrument pitch, which is a major sixth.
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