Am 22.12.2015 um 22:16 schrieb Simon Albrecht:
> 
> 
> On 22.12.2015 22:04, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
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>> I had a christmas carol "Zu Bethlehem geboren" with is in F-Dur. That
>> piece has a bass voice going to "großem F" more than once. Since the
>> other voice are not at all at their upper limit, I thought to
>> transpose the carol by 1 or 2 tones to G-Dur or A-Dur.
>>
>> This turned out difficult for the following reason.
>>
>> Using the \transposition with the \score
>>
>> \score {
>>      \transposition D {
>>     \new ChoirStaff <<
>> ...
>>
>>          >>
>>      }
>>      \layout {}
>>      \midi {}
>> }
>>
>> gave error: wrong Typ of Argument 1, pitch expected, "D" found
>>
>> I than used \transpose for individual voices, which lost the \relative
>> c'' property and the notes had to be individually positioned.
>> Furthermore the whole piece is still noted in F-Dur which makes for
>> some unusual naturals.
>>
>> Is there a way to raise an entire piece of music by one note value?
> 
> There’s no problem with just writing
> 
> \score {
>   \transpose f g
>   \new ChoirStaff <<
>     …
>   >>
> }
> 
> \transposition is intended for use with transposing instruments in
> orchestral scores, a whole different issue.
> 
> HTH, Simon


Thank you Simon, that did it. I looked in the docu, but could not find
it. Maybe I should be added.

Thanks again

Bernhard

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