I am new to transposition, so forgive me if this is a ignorant question. Say you have a D sharp at concert pitch. It gets transposed for this instrument up a ninth, so comes out as E sharp. In the atonal music I am doing this is better rendered as F. Is there any way to achieve this with some option, or is manual intervention always required?
I have done a search of the forum but discussion on this sort of topic leave me flummoxed.
If it’s atonal, can it be an E-flat in the score?
It could, but we have D sharps. I have the feeling your answer means this can’t be done automatically.
You can respell just the Part and not the Score.
Edit: To clarify, yes it has to be done manually.
I think it can be, but I am not at my computer right now.
There are some debates on how a full score of atonal would look like, even a sounding one.
My approach would be, that I would write d sharps next to e flats in the (sounding) full score, because Bb instruments prefer flats.
Some people get confused, for me it provides a visual anchor what the instrument is I am dealing with. But it highly depends on context.
this is why i always work in transposed score, and most conductors I’ve worked with so far are happy with either… saves a lot of proofreading time, otherwsie I get so frustrated trying to iron out the differences between score and parts …
@Schweinhorn For some reason the composer whose scores I engrave composed at concert pitch and left me to do the transposition, so I had no say in it. And there is no conductor involved, just solo bass clarinet, and piano.