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Re: tie between voice & transpose a to g


From: Tim Roberts
Subject: Re: tie between voice & transpose a to g
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:56:42 -0700
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MING TSANG <address@hidden> wrote:

2. Is it a lily pond feature that will transpose the whole score even there are two or more key signatures?

Yes.  Some of the common uses of \transpose are to allow one to write the music in concert pitch, but print it out for a transposing instrument, such as a clarinet in Bb, or to take a choral piece written for one voice (soprano) and print it out for another voice (tenor).  You generally want to keep the modulations the same as the original, so you want all of the music transposed by the same amount.

I suspect you are thinking that "\transpose a g" means "take any music in the key of A and convert it to the key of G".  That's not what it means.  It means "transpose everything in the attached music down a whole step."

However, \transpose only acts on the music that you pass it:  If you only want to transpose one section, you can certainly do that.

organPart = {
    \transpose a g { ... section 1... }
    \transpose a f  { ... section 2... }
}
-- 
Tim Roberts, address@hidden
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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