On 03 Aug 2005, at 3:33 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
On Aug 3, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
6) Now, using the Staff Tool, double-click the staff. This
launches the Staff Attributes dialog box. Click the "Select" box
next to "Transposition." Change the transposition method from Key
Signature to Chromatic.
Why do you need to do this? What's the advantage of chromatic
transposition over key signature transposition? Is this something
you do when you want both score and parts to be "non key related" -
no key signature on either?
Yes.
Most of the time, my music isn't strictly in a traditional key, so I
don't write key signatures, ever. Lots of contemporary writers
(Maria Schneider, John Hollenbeck, Jim McNeely, etc) avoid key
signatures even when their stuff is mostly tonal.
Sibelius has a key signature -- separate from C major/A minor --
called "Open Key/Atonal" -- which does the same thing as setting all
staves to Chromatic Transposition in Finale, with two big advantages:
1) Chord symbols transpose correctly.
2) It's a one-step process to change an entire score from Key
Signature transposition to Chromatic transposition. There is no way
to do this in Finale except by changing the transposition settings
for each staff individually, which is incredibly tedious.
- Darcy
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