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Twisting vs Transposition - What's the difference?

twisting | transposition |

As nouns the difference between twisting and transposition

is that twisting is while transposition is the act or process of transposing or interchanging.

As a verb twisting

is .

As an adjective twisting

is having many twists.

twisting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 23, author=Alexander Star, title=Richard Poirier: A Man of Good Reading, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Tracing Emerson’s famous twistings and turnings, Mr. Poirier argued that even when he seemed most complacent
  • * 1984 , Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
    • She was oblivious of all around her, and her facial twistings and scrunchings were droll.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Having many twists
    • The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road.

    transposition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of transposing or interchanging.
  • (music) A shift of a piece of music to a different musical key by adjusting all the notes of the work equally either up or down in pitch.
  • (chess) A sequence of moves resulting in a position that may also be reached by another, more common sequence.

    • Derived terms

    * transpositional

    Related terms

    * transpose

    See also

    * twelve tone technique * serialism

    References

    * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6.