From the course: Learning Music Notation
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Score setup: Transposing instruments
From the course: Learning Music Notation
Score setup: Transposing instruments
- [Speaker] Once score standard that you should be aware of is the instrument order. This can differ a bit by genre, so we'll take a look at some representative examples. This is also a good time to take a look at instruments like trumpet, clarinet, and saxophone. They're transposing instruments, and if you're not familiar with this concept, it can be very confusing at first. So let's take a moment to explain what this means and why it's still a convenient way to read and notate music for these instruments. So the instrument order is an important aspect of how you set up a score. In general, instruments are grouped in families and then within the family, they're arranged from highest instrument to the lowest instrument. So in an orchestral score, and I'm gonna zoom in just a little bit, we can see that at the top we start with woodwinds. And within this family of instruments, we can see that we're going from high to low with flutes, oboes, clarinets down to bassoon and contrabassoon…
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