transcription
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- noun
- /trænˈskrɪpʃən/
- Specialized
:
transcripción
- "Carlos Sanz published a 'truly innovative transcription' thirty years ago that included a facsimile of the original document."
- music transcriptions
- transcriptions for band
Examples
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Contemporary popular music may be a student's inspiration to study guitar, but a high-quality transcription might be expensive or harmonically incomplete.
Academic text (2010) -
Many of these bands play transcriptions of some very demanding classical and romantic symphonic works.
Academic text (1995) -
A sequence is an electronic transcription of music that can be edited completely.
Academic text (1997) -
Scores that are based on a transcription of a native performance attempt to be true to the model.
Academic text (2000) -
"My draft of the poem has my handwritten transcription of the class discussion."
Academic text (2013) -
Throughout, I include musical transcriptions that demonstrate the breadth of contemporary Baul-Fakir musical performance.
Academic text (2016) -
Historically important marches and transcriptions of great symphonic works are valuable.
Academic text (1994) -
She performed a beautiful transcription of the famous symphony for piano.
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The transcription of the piece for string quartet brought a fresh perspective to the original arrangement.
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His transcription of the folk songs made them accessible for modern musicians.
Synonyms
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A version of a piece of music written for different instruments or voices
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A version of a song changed for certain voices or instruments
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Making a piece of music fit for different instruments or voices
Music written for piano that comes from a piece for other instruments like an orchestra
Compounds
- Specialized
Music written for piano that comes from a piece for other instruments like an orchestra
How Adapted
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
transcription = transcribe (semi-transparent) = trans + script + ion
Formed by adding -ion to 'transcribe'; the musical meaning 'arrangement for a different instrument' extends the basic idea of transferring/adapting and is a specialized sense.
Etymology
Transcription in music is like 'writing across' a piece so it fits a new instrument; the parts trans- 'across' and scrib 'write', as in script, help you see that you are writing the same music again for different players, which is why it means an arrangement for another instrument.