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Re: Transpose down a perfect fifth


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Transpose down a perfect fifth
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:13:32 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Ryan Michael <address@hidden> writes:

>> On Monday, April 11, 2016, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Ryan Michael <address@hidden <javascript:;>> writes:
>>>
>>> > Sorry all . I was doing \transpose but on something demarcated as 
>>> > \relative
>>> > c'{}
>>> >
>>> > Which meant it was an octave higher after transposition
>>>
>>> \transpose works fine on the result of \relative.  More likely than not
>>> you are not using \transpose on the result of \relative but rather
>>> \relative on the result of \transpose.  Which would be a bad idea.
>
> Why is that a bad idea?

\transpose delivers absolute music, \relative does not have an effect on
that.

I think that the manual mentions this.

-- 
David Kastrup



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