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Lilypond transposition newbie.


From: Brian Durant
Subject: Lilypond transposition newbie.
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:11:20 +0100
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Hi. I am giving Lilypond another chance after having been away for some time. I am using Frescobaldi and have copied some sheet music for a C instrument, in my case a C Melody saxophone. Now I would like to take this Lilypond file and transpose it for a Tenor saxophone. I have replaced everything to do with a C Melody saxophone, with Tenor sax info. However, the notes are of course the same, as for the C Mel and need to be transposed. I have looked through the Lilypond documentation, as well as the archive for this e-mail list, but I still am unsure what I need to do. I believe that it has something to do with the \transpose function but am unsure how to get this to work as a Tenor saxophone is a transposing instrument already, but nothing has changed when I changed instrument type. The original key for the song (for a C instrument) is A Major, and I know that for a Tenor saxophone, this needs to be changed to the key of B Major. If the \transpose function works as I think it does, then I apparently should add a "\transpose a b" someplace, but no matter where I add this, nothing changes.

I have posted a dump of the Lilypond file that I am working on here:
http://lilybin.com/hfoy4g/1





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