Re: NR 1.1.2, transpose: obscure sentence

[Federico Bruni]

Il 03/01/2012 09:03, flup2 ha scritto:
> Hello,
>
> Here's the way I understand it (but I may be wrong, of course).
>
> Imagine you wrote a alto saxophone part, but you notated all in real sounds.

So, following your example below, it should be notated in A.

My understanding of transposing instruments is, for example: score is 
notated in C but it sounds as A.

> You may use the \transpose command this way :
>
> \new Staff \transpose c a \mySaxvariable

Shouldn't it be the opposite?
\traspose a c

Unless you meant to say that notes are entered in C. But I wouldn't call 
it "real sounds".

I'm quite confused about transposition...

> As you may know, alto sax transpose one sixth lower, you must thus raise it
> by the same interval. But, in relative mode, the distance between c and a
> would only be a third, not a sixth. So, when you define the transposition
> interval with two notes, (c and a in this example), they are considered
> being in absolute mode (sixth interval, here), not in relative mode even if
> \mySaxvariable contains notes in relative mode.
>
> Philippe

Thanks Philippe,

this is clear but the first sentence still looks obscure to me :)

How would you rephrase it? "Its argument" is the part that maybe is not 
so straightforward:

"The relative conversion will not affect \transpose, \chordmode or 
\relative sections in its argument."