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Originally Posted by TBman
I call writing music down from ear transcribing, my mistake.
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No mistake! That's what it means - or can mean.
Literally "trans" = "across, over or elsewhere", "scribe" = "write".
Its normal application, in fact (outside of music), is for converting speech into writing - spoken word into written word - so that's exactly analogous to converting musical sounds into notation.
rick-slo's sense is just another
specifically musical application of the term: to convert music written for one instrument into notation for another.
Both senses imply both "writing" and some kind of "conversion". Either sound into writing, or one form of writing into another.