Re: Transposing an entire score

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> I have a piece of choral music written in 7 parts. It's around 80 bars long.
> It's in the key of F major, which is too low for my choir.
> I'd like to transpose it up 3 semitones to A flat major.
> I'm new to Lilypond and the syntax gives me nightmares. I read the
> manual's section on transposing and now have a headache.
> Please could someone either give me an idiot's guide to how to do
> this, or amend the enclosed. 

Your score somewhere has a single music expression containing all the
notes, probably in the form of

\new ChoirStaff
<<
   \new Staff ...
   \new Staff ...
>>

You put \transpose f' a' before that single expression.  That's all.


-- 
David Kastrup