Re: Auto-transposition

[Saul Tobin]

I would highly recommend against this type of coding style. \resetRelativeOctave belongs IMO always as part of the definition of a music _expression_, ideally on the line directly preceding note entry.

Personally, I think it is preferable to define all of the music for each context by explicitly typing it in a single variable. Using music variables for fragments or phrases which are then transformed or combined is a recipe for code that is difficult to read and debug, and IMO virtually never helps the compositional process in the long run. There may be use cases where that sort of thing is appropriate, but I imagine they must be very far from the kind of work I do.

On Dec 15, 2017 7:54 AM, "Wols Lists" <address@hidden> wrote:

On 15/12/17 13:45, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 15 Dec 2017 at 10:02:19 (+0000), Wols Lists wrote:
>> On 15/12/17 06:20, Saul Tobin wrote:
>>> Relative mode makes perfect sense if you're entering music that cares
>>> mainly about the relationship between notes within a phrase (i.e. most
>>> music). IMO absolute mode might be easier from the perspective of the
>>> software, but it's not how most musicians think, and that's
>>> important. Maybe the documentation could do a better job explaining the
>>> semantics of relative mode and when to use \resetRelativeOctave?
>>>
>>> I take exception to the idea that relative mode ought to be deprecated.
>>> I've been using exclusively relative mode to compose for almost ten
>>> years, and I think it's great.
>>
>> I think Han-Wen actually wrote \resetRelativeOctave for me :-)
>>
>> But if you don't understand relative then it will mess you up.
>>
>> Does anybody (not me :-) want to write a little update for the docu that
>> will make both relative mode and \resetRelativeOctave (hopefully) clear?
>>
>> It originated when I was (iirc) transcribing Chattanooga Choo-Choo, and
>> there's a repeated phrase, so I thought I'd define it as a variable.
>> OOOPPSS! The starting and ending notes are a fifth or more apart, and
>> the phrase repeats with nothing else in-between. The resulting staircase
>> was spectacular!
>>
>> If somebody would care to take that as hint for putting an example in
>> the docu, that's fine by me! :-)
>
> Just use \relative early.
>

I was thinking more along the lines of (note this is NOT TESTED)

phrase = { c f d g }

\relative { \phrase \phrase \phrase }

\relative { \resetRelativeOctave \phrase \resetRelativeOctave \phrase
\resetRelativeOctave \phrase }

Cheers,
Wol


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