Re: marche unitonale

[Mats Bengtsson]

David Bobroff wrote:
> yota moteuchi wrote:
>   
> > How do I do with lilypond what it's called in french : "marche
> > unitonale" (that I can not translate in english)
> >
> > Which is the translation of a pattern, a chord, keeping the degrees as
> > well as the key
> > ex :
> >
> > \key c \major
> > <a c e>
> >
> > become
> >
> > \key c \major
> > <g b d>
> >
> >
> > french readers would enjoy this wonderful example :
> > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marche_harmonique
> >
> >
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>
> If I correctly understand your example the English term you mean is
> "sequence." That is, a pattern which repeats in a different part of the
> scale.  As far as I know this is not possible with LilyPond.  There is a
> \transpose function but this is not what you want, I think.
>   
It certainly can be done, but you may have to write a few lines of Scheme
code to do it. You may want to take a look at the example called 
"smart-transpose.ly"
in the Tips and Tricks document, which makes something related.

  /Mats