I’ve noticed that transposing a section of music the key signature does not change, though if the signature is a part of the section I have the option of transposing it.
How do I transpose from C major to C minor? If I just change the signature I now have natural signs in front of each E, A, and B. I don’t see how I would transpose just those three pitches.
Hi @bellist, besides the useful solution by @asherber, as an alternative there is also the Map Scale functionality (menu Write>Transform>Map Scale…), which can be handy in other scenarios too, depending on your needs:
To add to the very good suggestions already given here, the note tool popover (Shift+I) also lets you enter syntax like c M to c m — for the minor scale, that gives you the harmonic one, here with B naturals.
(credit to @Janus who mentioned this in a thread, a couple of months ago)
I find that one to be unreliable as sometimes the notes snap the wrong way! It would need to be snap c m down else E might snap to F rather than Eb (I know it shouldn’t but it does!)
Unfortunately, after testing again, you are right! Tried out for example a C major scale to “snap” to g minor, which results in c d eb f# g a c c. No b.
These are both great functions that I hadn’t explored!
I believe this popover started out as an Intervals popover – hence the Shift+I – and later changed to Note Tools as it added more functionality. In my head, I still find it useful to call it Intervals, to correspond with the key command, even though I know it does much more!