The transposition to 1920s New York keeps the story in a sensible key.
By this means, all surveys can be "tied" to control points in the system without transposition to geographic coordinates.
This concerto, whose only copy was discovered in the Osek monastery, was originally written for valveless horn but is set so high in the register that transposition to the trumpet seems quite natural.
This seminal science-fiction movie was in effect a transposition to outer space of a Conrad novel about a run-down tramp steamer picking up a lethally dangerous passenger from a remote island.
This poetic film, her finest to date, evokes in its title P.C. Wren's 1924 bestselling Beau Geste, and is a transposition to a present-day French Foreign Legion post beside the Red Sea of Herman Melville's homoerotic novella Billy Budd.
The Symmetrical Variation is introduced by 2 c5, and after 3 Ncd Nc6 4 d4 cd 5 Nd4 e6 6 a3 Nd4 7 Qd4 b6 8 Qf4 Be7 9 e4 d6, there arises a transposition to a type of Maroczy bind (white pawns at c4 and e4 confronting a black pawn at d6).
The film is a transposition to the American west of Mutiny on the Bounty, and its author, Borden Chase, went on to write several equally complex Anthony Mann westerns, as did his co-screenwriter Charles Schnee, who won an Oscar for The Bad and the Beautiful.
Like many, I'd always thought a remake was wholly unnecessary, but the transposition to New Mexico – it snows in Los Alamos, who knew? – and the puritanical 80s of Reagan-era America works wonders, underscoring the tale's universality while giving it greater familiarity.
But it touches so amusingly, perceptively and honestly on what it's like to be a confused, self-doubting young man immersed in popular culture in any large city in the Western world at the end of the twentieth century that the transposition to Chicago for the movie version involves surprisingly little reworking.
With minor changes, this could be Francesco Rosi's Italian classic Three Brothers (which is actually a transposition to southern Italy of a celebrated Russian novel) or the episode of Coronation Street earlier this month when Jack Duckworth met the ghost of his late wife, Vera, before going to join her in the hereafter.
Finally, in the 16th century, English keyboard music, too, was sometimes based on a cantus firmus, or underlying melody, called "faburden of the chant," consisting not of the original plainchant but of its transposition to a lower pitch, as in the second voice of a fauxbourdon.
