Re: sharping naturals

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:35:44 +0200
Malte Meyn <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 25.07.2015 um 01:32 schrieb Kieren MacMillan:
> > I’m no Scheme expert, of course… but it seems there should be
> > a relatively easy way to code a music function which says
> > “take all pitches [entered as ’naturals’] and add any
> > accidentals which exist in the corresponding key signature
> > entry for that pitch class”, no? i.e., if the input is ‘c’,
> > and there’s a C# in the key signature, output cis; if the
> > input is ‘d’, and there’s a Db in the key signature, output
> > des; etc.
> > 
> 
> What you can do is something like
> 
> bmajoraccidentals = { c cis d dis f fis g gis a ais }
> \modalTranspose c cis \bmajoraccidentals \relative {
>     \key b \major
>     b c d e f g a b
> }
> 
> So you don’t even need a new function. But that’s very
> unflexible as it doesn’t allow you to enter pitches other than
> b cis dis e fis gis ais, bis, eis, and all the flats. But you
> won’t get it much more flexible even with a new function.

\key a Major ... \follow gs cs ff {...

More flexible, but insane in the example. 
Kindest regards, Rale

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