transpose
Example Sentences
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The second part of the 45-minute work doesn’t clarify the intent so much as escape the problem, transposing the content into a much more engaging key.
From New York Times
“With our safety drivers, we’re collecting huge amounts of data, safety verifications and transposing in real time to our customers.”
From Seattle Times
“Palladium” is one of the group’s most fun tunes; just when you think it’s resolving, it keeps flying on, transposing up a key and ultimately finishing on a cliffhanger.
From New York Times
Now Farina was back in my life, singing his magic words at the Numero Twenty festival in Los Angeles on Saturday night, transposing the weekend’s fundamental proposition into melody.
From Washington Post
The other showed that infants can sense the relationships between notes — they can tell when the same melody is transposed to a different key.
From New York Times
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