Re: probematic transposition

[David Bobroff]

 On 9/13/2010 8:56 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:58:03 +0000, David Bobroff<address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > I've got a piece in Eb major with a section in E major.  For the
> > instrumentation involved it will almost certainly be necessary to
> > transpose it all down a minor 3rd due to the range in some of the
> > parts.  The Eb section comes out in C which is just fine but the E major
> > ends up in C# major which is not so convevient.  Db would be much easier
> > to read.  Is there a straightforward way to accomplish having the Eb
> > section in C and the E section in Db?
> Not as easy but I break music like that (just the one part) into pieces.
> It's easy enough
> to put the pieces back together with { \piece1 piece2 } and { \transpose x
> y \piece1 \transpose a b \piece2 }
>
> Paul Scott

I had decided to go with the above idea of breaking the music into 
sections and doing separate transpositions on each section to produce 
the desired results.  All was well until I ran into a long slur that 
crossed the key change boundary.

To get around that I thought I would just pre-transpose the middle 
section.  I recall that there is (or was) a way to have LilyPond send 
output to stdout (or directed to a file) which would allow me to take 
the section in question, apply a transposition to it, send it to a file 
and then use that segment instead of the original one in the fully 
transposed version.  I can't find a reference to this in the manual.  
Has this functionality been removed?  I thought it was called 
"output-music" or something of the sort.

-David