The A2 in the next measure is out of that instrument's range. For example, the first note of your excerpt (D3) is the lowest sounding pitch for a Bb Soprano Clarinet. That said, you need to be cognizant of instrument ranges. To answer your question directly, transpositions are the same regardless of the clef in which they're originally written. Therefore, when written for Bb clarinets it should be transposed to E minor. In the musical example you provided, the key appears to be D minor. This applies to the key as well, if there is a key in the composition. Therefore, in the left hand of the original piano part, you would need to write "E-B-E" in order for it to sound as "D-A-D". In order to play the musical example you have posted, you will need to arrange for at least four clarinets - likely 3 Bb Clarinets and 1 Bass Clarinetīb Clarinets are written a Major-Second above sounding pitch. Of course, you could certainly have a clarinet play the melody line, but you've only copied the accompaniment here. However, the part you've copied here can't really be made for clarinet, because you have to play many notes at the same time, and outside of the specialized and strange sounding world of multiphonics, that isn't possible. Unfortunately, that's the lowest note the clarinet can play, so some notes will have to be brought up an octave. So that first note in the bass clef in your example, D, should be written as an E, three ledger lines and a space below the treble clef. ![]() ![]() Clef doesnt change any of this, since it only establishes a relative range of the same ultimate collection of notes, but the clarinet should never be written in bass clef, even when this means ledger lines beneath the treble clef. (A nice little rhyme that might help you is, "A transposing instrument sees a C, but plays it's key.") So when a Bb clarinet sees a C, it plays a Bb. ![]() This is true regardless of whether there are accidentals or not, every single note needs to be two semitones higher. You're correct that that is two semitones. Every note for the Bb clarinet should be written a major second higher than the sounding pitch.
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