Re: Transposing help.

[Jonathan Kulp]

Hi Seth,

I downloaded the archive and tried what I think you want to do.  You 
want the whole thing transposed to F minor, right?

Ok, first I ran "convert-ly" on all of the files to update the syntax to 
version 2.11.62 of Lilypond.  You may or may not really need to do this. 
 If the files compiled successfully without converting to the latest 
syntax, then you can probably skip this step.  On Linux you can convert 
the syntax in place by navigating to the right directory and doing 
"convert-ly -e *.ly".  Check the documentation for how to do it on other 
platforms. If you're running the stable 2.10.33 version, then it will 
convert to the syntax for that version.

Before transposing, I ran the file to see if it would compile, and 
although there were a number of errors and warnings reported, it 
compiled successfully and showed a pdf score when finished. So then I 
put the transposition command "\transpose h f' { \...} in the score 
block for each movement inside the score.ly file, and it seems to have 
worked.  It might need some adjustments for it to be usable 
musically--clef changes and such in the keyboard part because everything 
is a fifth higher--but it compiled and all the music is there in the key 
of F minor.  If you wanted it to go down a fourth instead of up a fifth 
like I did it, then changed where I typed "h f'" to "h f".  I've 
attached the transposed score file for you to see where I added all of 
the \transpose commands.  You should be able to compile the piece by 
putting this file in the right directory and compiling using this file 
instead of the original score.ly.  When you want to print the transposed 
flute part, add the same \transpose commands to each movement's \score 
block in the flute_part.ly file.

If you're using 2.10.33 and you get an error reported because your 
version is too old, try simply changing the version statement in the 
score-transposed.ly file to 2.10.33.

Good luck,

Jon


Seth Merkley wrote:
> I've recently been trying to transpose a piece of music I got from mutopia
> here:
> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=645
> http://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=645 
> I don't know how to write lilypond files, but I did read a little bit on the
> basics and I do understand the basics of other languages such as C. Also,
> the files are in German, so that probably adds to my confusion.
>
> Anyway, I was able to transpose the first movement of the flute part by
> adding "\transpose h' f' { \fluteA }" (h = b in German, this took me awhlile
> to figure out) to the bottom of the "flute_1.ly" file and compiling the
> "flute_part.ly" file. I realize there's probably a more correct way to do
> this, but again I don't understand entirely how lilypond files work...
> Later I tried to transpose the first movement of the accompaniment, by
> adding "\transpose h' f' { \clavecinA }"  to the end of the clave_1.ly file
> and compiling the score.ly file. Usually, the score.pdf contains both the
> flute and accompaniment on a three-bar staff, but after transposing both
> fluteA and clavecinA the score.pdf had the flute part of the whole first
> movement, and then just the accompaniment of the whole first movement
> separately. The other two movements that I didn't transpose were in a
> three-bar staff like usual. Also, the midi file that was created is
> unreadable by my player.
>
> If someone could download the music and help me out here I would greatly
> appreciate it.

--
Jonathan Kulp
http://www.jonathankulp.com

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