transposition
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“Bacharach does transpositions and surprise modulations and extra beats and phrases,” Morris continues.
From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2022
Gordon went to his house upstate and rewrote, making changes up until the production was frozen ahead of critics previews, nips here, transpositions there.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2022
Even if nothing in previous Met history has equaled her high A, other singers have come close, sometimes adding unwritten interpolations and transpositions to show off their personal stratospheres.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2017
The man who helped to originate conceptual staging, with his historically displaced productions of “Macbeth” and “Julius Caesar,” felt that such radical transpositions had no place in opera.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015
By performing many transpositions on the same plaintext, and shuffling the columns, you can create a baffling message.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Vocabulary lists containing transposition
Genetics - Middle School
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Genetics - High School
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Music - Middle School
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