Name: Charles Moe
Competency: B4
Artifact Title: Instrument Transposition Chart (Concert Pitch, Bb, Eb, and F instruments)
Artifact Type: Charts that show the instrument transpositions for Concert, Bb, Eb, and F pitched instruments
Rationale for Inclusion: Competency B4 states that a teacher of vocal music must interpret vocal and instrumental scores and understand percussion, string, or wind instrument requirements necessary for interpreting and producing music from scores. These transposition charts are helpful tools for the interpretation of wind instruments typically seen in wind band scores. With wind instruments, we find that they are "pitched" in different keys. That means that if a wind band is playing the same scale tonally, those notes are written differently depending on what instrument is being played. It is important that a conductor of vocal music have a basic understanding of this and a conductor of instrumental music have a thorough understanding.
