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RE: change of plans for this final project


From: Daniel Rosen
Subject: RE: change of plans for this final project
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:28:23 +0000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kastrup [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 2:46 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: change of plans for this final project
> 
> \transposition gives the relation between audible and visible pitch.
> 
> If you want to enter stuff in true pitch, you can transpose it down visually 
> by
> using \transpose.  So if you write something like
> 
> \new Staff {
>   \transposition bes
>   \transpose bes c' { bes ces' des' es' } }
> 
> then what you write inside of the \transpose command is transposed one
> note up visually, but the bes that looks like c' after the transposition 
> sounds
> like bes still.
> 
> --
> David Kastrup
> 
> 

David, this is something that I've come across in the past that has confused me 
as well. Can you explain in greater detail exactly what the difference is 
between \transpose and \transposition, and why there are two separate commands?



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