Re: Part of Key signature in bracket

[Thomas Morley]

2015-09-10 20:32 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht <address@hidden>:
> Hello Andreas,
>
> Am 10.09.2015 um 19:38 schrieb Andreas Stenberg:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm editing an 18-th century piece with several voices and "movements"
>> where the source; an early print, has a printing error for the first
>> movement of the piece. In all the Voices for that movement the key is given
>> as G-major when it obviously should be D- major as in the rest of the
>> movements.
>
>
> In the Baroque period it was still fairly common to allude to church modes
> in key signature, e.g.
> – d ‘minor’ without a flat or { \key d \dorian } (also with other minor
> keys)
> – e ‘minor’ without a sharp or { \key e \phrygian }.
> From this point of view, I think (without knowing the exact context of
> course) it’s possible that it was not by mistake that the editor wrote {
> \key g \mixolydian }.
>
> But this doesn’t impede the editorial decision to use two sharps in your
> print. (It might lead to confusion with ambiguous notes, though.)
>
>> Is there any way to get a bracket on the c- sharp in the key signature for
>> D - major?
>
>
> With LilyPond, all things are possible! It just depends on the amount of
> programming involved… In this case, the actual programming has already been
> done by David Nalesnik (kudos!) for the thread starting here
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-08/msg00373.html>:
> providing an alternative print routine for KeySignature (and
> KeyCancellation, which you’re likely not going to need), which allows
> individual handling of the accidentals.
> I modified this such that it doesn’t do coloring, but parenthesizing.
>


Also available:
http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/change-the-key-signature-td148427.html#a149165
David's engraver is much nicer, though.

Cheers,
  Harm