Re: Lilypond transposition newbie.

[shane]

\transpose x y { music notes c4 es etc. etc. } 

Fairly easy but sometimes things are not necessarily obvious after staring at it too long.

Good luck,

Shane

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From: Brian Durant <address@hidden>

Date: 12/13/17 3:11 PM (GMT-05:00)

To: address@hidden

Subject: Lilypond transposition newbie.

Hi. I am giving Lilypond another chance after having been away for some 
time. I am using Frescobaldi and have copied some sheet music for a C 
instrument, in my case a C Melody saxophone. Now I would like to take 
this Lilypond file and transpose it for a Tenor saxophone. I have 
replaced everything to do with a C Melody saxophone, with Tenor sax 
info. However, the notes are of course the same, as for the C Mel and 
need to be transposed. I have looked through the Lilypond documentation, 
as well as the archive for this e-mail list, but I still am unsure what 
I need to do. I believe that it has something to do with the \transpose 
function but am unsure how to get this to work as a Tenor saxophone is a 
transposing instrument already, but nothing has changed when I changed 
instrument type. The original key for the song (for a C instrument) is A 
Major, and I know that for a Tenor saxophone, this needs to be changed 
to the key of B Major. If the \transpose function works as I think it 
does, then I apparently should add a "\transpose a b" someplace, but no 
matter where I add this, nothing changes.

I have posted a dump of the Lilypond file that I am working on here:
http://lilybin.com/hfoy4g/1



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