Re: Transposing an entire score (fwd)

[Phil Holmes]

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Subject: Transposing an entire score (fwd)


> I have a piece of choral music in 8 parts. It's too low for my choir to
> sing, so I want to transpose the entire piece up from the key of F to the
> key of A.
>
> I asked an almost identical question on the forum in November and the 
> first
> answer I received worked. Unfortunately, it doesn't work this time, 
> perhaps
> because the score is formatted differently.
>
> As a mere musician, I'm afraid many of the answers I received last time 
> were
> too technical for me to understand, so I'd be really grateful for 
> simplicity
> in responses.
>
> I'm enclosing the file, just in case someone wants to fix it for me.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Peter

It's quite straightforward - enclose all the music you want to be transposed 
with curly braces and write "transpose f a" in front of the opening curly 
brace.  An example for the second basses:

bassussecundusstaff = \context Staff = "bassussecundus" <<
\transpose f a { \global }
\clef bass
\context Voice = "bassussecundus" { \transpose f a { \bassussecundus } }


Incidentally - do check the log file produced.  Your music is throwing lots 
of warnings.

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Phil Holmes