Transposition Inquisition
A study in literacy and musicality through the performance of excerpts in all keys.
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This project was started in 2019 (modeled after Will Baker's ‘Get Fluent’) in conjunction with my dissertation on sight-reading (Martorano 2019). If you are seeing this series before you have seen "Get Fluent", you should definitely click this link and check it out!!
In an exploratory study, I found that select factors significantly correlating to sight-reading ability (Mishra 2013), were significantly improved using these transposition exercises. Practicing these exercises not only increases fluency but also the user’s overall musical expression and performance ability.
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Mishra, Jennifer. "Factors Related to Sight-Reading Accuracy." Journal of Research in Music Education 61, no. 4 (2013)
Update:
Hey! It's been a little while since my last post. This is a new subset of transposition exercises that I am calling, uncreatively, "Play Along". They are the same transposition exercises you will find in seasons 1-7 of the Transposition Inquisition, but in video form (hosted on YouTube).
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Here is a running list of the exercises that I have made thus far:
1) Put Your Head on My Shoulder (Euph)
2) Montagues and Capulets (Tuba)
3) Mozart Duet for Tuba and Euphonium
4.1) The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (Tuba)
4.2) The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (Euph)
5) Mozart Horn Concerto Nr 4 (Tuba)
6) System Of A Down - Hypnotize (Tuba)
7) Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River (Tuba/Euph)
8) Scales and Arpeggios (Tuba/Euph)
