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transposing, vbl. n.|trɑːnsˈpəʊzɪŋ, træns-|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. transpose, in various senses.
1550Acc. St. Andrew's, Canterb. (MS.), Item for the transposyng of a cope xviij d. 1559Morwyng Evonym. 141 By a certain metempsychosin, that is a transposinge of the soules or principal vertues. 1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 210 b, The cup of his wrath... The transposing of the woorde Cup from his owne proper signification,..is very ryfe in the Scriptures. 1706A. Bedford Temple Mus. vii. 156 We hardly meet with a Verse.., but with Transposing would admit of..Rhymes. 1908Contemp. Rev. Apr. 414 There is not much more in it than a transposing of words.
b. attrib.: transposing instrument (Mus.), (a) an instrument having a mechanical device for transposing into a different key, as a transposing harpsichord, transposing organ, transposing piano; (b) a name for those orchestral instruments the parts for which are written in a different key from that in which they sound.
1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 142/2 This instrument was called by Mr. Trotter a transposing piano-forte. 1883W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Mus. III. 433/1 In all these Scores, the Parts for the so-called ‘Transposing-Instruments’ correspond with the separate ‘Parts’ used in the Orchestra. 1889A. J. Hipkins ibid. IV. 160/1 Prætorius (a.d. 1619) speaks of transposing clavicymbals (harpsichords) which by shifting the keyboard could be set two notes higher or lower... Burney in his musical tour met with two transposing harpsichords; one..at Venice; the other..at Bologna. |