Re: notes in order?

[Paul Scott]

Hans Forbrich wrote:

> I find that Lilypond has an interesting interpretation of the ' and ,
> relative-pitch marks.
They are only relative pitch marks when using \notes\relative.  
Otherwise they are absolute pitch marks.

> The way I look at it, a note has a number of close neighbours.  The
> neighbourhood seems to be roughly +4, -5 semi-tones.  If 'note + 1' is within
> the neighbourhood, you do not need (or even want) to use a relative-pitch
> mark.
>
> The marks are only used to jump outside the neighbourhood.  So an increasing
> scale would end up simply as
>
> g a b c d e f g
>
> and a decreasing one would be
>
> g f e d c b a g
>  
That's for \notes\relative not for \notes as Bryan's example showed.

Paul