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From: | James Lowe |
Subject: | Re: Best practice when typesetting transposing instruments. |
Date: | Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:41:54 +0000 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) |
This will depend on who else is seeing the music.For example I transpose a lot of music for the conductor of my orchestra (as some of us can't do it in our heads that easily), but I always set it in the original (i.e. if the conductor has it in A on their score I set it in A). That way if there any mistakes made I can always go back to the original rather than have to work out the mistakes to fix.
It also allows for a lot more flexibility for any other instruments who may take the parts - we don't have a full complement of instruments so for those instruments we don't have we spread them around others that may not necessarily be in the same key.
I then set up duplicate lines in my \score {..} and simply comment out the transposition I don't want.
Also, because it helps me, I actually use \transpose c c { \music } so that when I have a long list
\score { << %\transpose c c { \music } \transpose a bes { \music } %\transpose a ees { \music } %\transpose a d { \music } >> }and so on. I use the >> as I also add first and second parts at the same time and depending if the requirement is to have two staves or a single one.
It's easy to see which line gives me the original key when I am flicking between the two for checking.
One other tip though, after typesetting a long piece and fiddling about with line breaks and positioning the fermatas/rehearsal marks and so on, when you transpose, the position of the staves can change dramatically (especially if you move from say, f major in A to a B flat instrument when yuo suddenly get 4 sharps - this will add lots of accidentals and also the 4 sharps take more room at the beginning of each line than 1 flat does - and this can really mess things up.
So I would not bother tweaking too much if you are finally going to transpose in one key and it changes things.
James Kirill wrote:
Hi LilyPond Gurus, I cannot quite find figure out from the manual which is a better practice when typesetting transposing instruments (say, a B\flat clarinet): 1) Specifying \transposition bes { ... } and then writing out the transposed part. Or 2) Using \transpose bes, c {\transposition bes ...} and notating in C? Thanks. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list address@hidden http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
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