David W. Fenton wrote:
That description with the flip "octave transpositions are ad lib." at the end seems to be rather clearly oriented towards score reading, not towards performance, where the octave is clearly *not* ad lib.
So, I think the whole octave thing is pretty important. When reading a score at the piano and playing a reduction of it (or, say, being a rehearsal accompanist for a choir singing from old clefs), octave can be somewhat ignored as long as harmonies are preserved, but that is not by any means the same thing as playing it as written.
You haven't been following the thread. The question was about transposition by clefs, and this necessarily means that you have to use some common sense and be flexible with the notated octave in order to get desired level of transposition. When I transpose up a major second by clef from bass clef to mezzo soprano clef, I have to make an additional octave transposition at sight.
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