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Re: Best practice when typesetting transposing instruments.


From: Mats Bengtsson
Subject: Re: Best practice when typesetting transposing instruments.
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:41:29 +0100
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It all depends on what you find convenient and what source material you have available. For example, sometimes you have a set of hand-written orchestral parts that you want to make readable, in which case it's easiest to input the notes as they are written in the original parts (including transposition). On the other hand, if you are composing, it's probably easier to input the notes as they should sound and let LilyPond take care of the transposition.

   /Mats

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.



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