Pitch, Saxes, and Transpositions | Maths and Music | N J Wildberger

Tones, notes and pitches are subtly different concepts. In music theory, the crucial role of transposition motivates us to a flexible approach to the musical duo decimal system of note naming. One way that this arises is through the various different keys that band and orchestral instruments come in. In particular, the saxophone family comes in 5 different versions, from soprano which is a B flat instrument to alto saxophone, which is an E flat instrument, all the way to a bass saxophone, which is again a B flat instrument.

This discussion is leading us inevitably to a major re-evaluation of our staff notational system for writing music on the page.

Please check out my TikTok (music) channel: www.tiktok.com/@njwildberger where I muse on alternate, improvised directions for (piano) music.

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Video Contents:
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Absolute pitches
01:24 Middle C tuning and powers of 2
03:35 Saxophone tuning and relative pitch
06:32 Transpositions
09:00 Notational system and transpositions

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