Re: Repeat 8va

[David Kastrup]

John Gourlay <address@hidden> writes:

> As an exercise in learning to use LilyPond I’m engraving “The Entertainer” by
> Scott Joplin. In the old published version I’m working from (1902), the score
> looks like this at measure 22:
> *
>
> I’m concerned about the “Repeat 8va”, which I assume means that on the
> second repetition of this section it should be played an octave higher than 
> the
> first time. Do you know how to make this happen in LilyPond? I can easily make
> the LilyPond output simply say “Repeat 8va”, but I’d really like LilyPond to 
> know
> about the octave change, so the midi output of the second repetition is played
> in the correct octave.

Place a

\transposition c''

right at the end of the repeat volta and a \transposition c' outside of
it.

I could imagine that to work.

-- 
David Kastrup