Re: GDP: What term do you use?

[Anh Hai Trinh]

> Octave transposition seems a confusing, since transposition in music
> usually implies that the passage is to be played in a different key.
> Octave displacement does not change the key.


According to Harvard dict. of music 4th ed.:

> Transposition. the rewriting or performance of music at a pitch other  
> than the original one.

It does not imply change of key in all contexts, keys have meaning only in  
tonal music anyway.

--AT