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Re: Is there a short way of forcing a particular octave?
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Kieren MacMillan |
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Re: Is there a short way of forcing a particular octave? |
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Thu, 22 Dec 2016 09:25:27 -0500 |
Hi again,
>> I find \relative mode quite helpful in orchestral works because it lends
>> itself very well to copy-n-paste octave doublings. Trying to do that in
>> absolute mode and needing to edit tens of 's and ,s after you copy a
>> line that needs to be transposed by an octave is quite painful.
>
> \fixed or \transpose is what I use if I’m copying-and-pasting orchestral
> doublings: no editing of ’s or ,s needed!
> For exact doublings, I use the quoting mechanism, of course!
And, of course, Frescobaldi’s transpose function(s) are wonderful, if you want
to make the change “permanently”. In any case, there’s never a need for
manually editing the octavation of a sequence of notes when reusing code in
Lilypond.
Cheers,
Kieren.
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