![]() Serbia) where Fixed Do solmization is used also use the Fixed Do key notation. Fixed Do key notation – used (among others) in Italian, French, Dutch (in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, Breton, Basque, Russian (along with the German system), Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Latvian, Lithuanian (along with the German and English system), Romanian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Turkish (along with the English system) and Vietnamese.Two notation systems are most commonly found beside the English system, the Fixed Do key notation and the German key notation That's a general guide to transposing keys.When a musical key or key signature is referred to in a language other than English, that language may use the usual notation used in English (namely the letters A to G, along with translations of the words sharp, flat, major and minor in that language): languages which use the English system include Irish, Welsh, Hindi, Japanese (based on katakana in iroha order), Korean (based on hangul in ganada order), Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Filipino, Swahili, Esperanto. Instead of changing some letter names and then adding flats to other letters, you would either change none of the letters and add a flat to all of the existing letter names, or change all of the letter names down by one and add sharps when necessary to make sure the new key is major. Of course, no one ever does this, but I thought it might help explain why your brain seemed to go in a valid direction and still was confusing. ![]() Then you would have a key signature for Fb major, which is enharmonic to E major. If you wanted, you could instead spell "E" as "Fb", also "A" as "Bbb" and "B" as "Cb". ![]() ![]() If you replace each flat with its enharmonic sharp, you'll end up with the key signature for E major. Changing from the key of F major to the key of Bb major would actually be raising the key by a fourth (five semitones), although it's clearer to say "transposing up a fourth". You transpose every note down one half-step. Yes, that is what lowering the key of a song by a semi-tone means. ![]()
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