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(doc help, 2.19) transposition sanity check


From: Graham Percival
Subject: (doc help, 2.19) transposition sanity check
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:27:47 -0700

As a string player, I always get confused when trying to deal with the grammar of transposition. In the below excerpt from the docs, should "a fifth downwards" be "a fourth upwards" ? Or "a fourth downwards" ? Or should the \transpose
be written differently?  Or...?


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\hornNotes = { stuff in C (concert pitch, sounding pitches, whatever) }
{
 \transpose f c' \hornNotes
}
The line

\include "horn-music.ly"
substitutes the contents of horn-music.ly at this position in the file, so hornNotes is defined afterwards. The command \transpose f c' indicates that the argument, being \hornNotes, should be transposed by a fifth downwards. Sounding `f' is denoted by notated c', which corresponds with the tuning of a normal French Horn in F. The transposition can be seen in the following output
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