I'm not interested in midi. So \transpostion seems to be useless to me. The manual just says nothing about it :-(
I agree that the manual should probably be more clear here. I have an example that I would be happy to add which clarifies one of your next questions.
And as for the workaround using "\transpose c bf" - well that's exactly that - a workaround. What the hell am I supposed to do when I'm coping with parts in Bf and D (trumpet), Bf and Ef (Cornet), Bb, Eb and C (Bass), Bb, C, Eb and G (Trombone) etc etc etc? My poor brain can't cope ... Even worse, what about the example in the manual, when I need to cope with D and G *in* *the* *same* *part*! (Horn).
So, from D to Bb (trumpet) you would have something like this:
DTrumpetNotes = \relative c'' { c2 d2 }\transpose c e { %% <-- it's 2am, so i may be off, but i think this is the
%% right degree of transposition
\DTrumpetNotes
}This example could be extended quite easily to the cornet, bass, trombone (transposing trombone! learn a new thing every day!); and if you're confused (as I might be) going from one key to another, you can always go through C, for example:
CTrumpetNotes = \transpose c d {
\DTrumpetNotes
}BbTrumpetNotes = \transpose c d {
\CTrumpetNotes
}And I'm sure this can be nested into itself more elegantly, but as I said, it's late on my end... I can't think that clearly.
The exception is for your horn part, which I would do like this:
DHornNotes = \relative c' { c1 }
CHornNotes = \relative c' { c1 }
FHornNotes = {
\transpose c a, { \DHornNotes }
\transpose c g, { \CHornNotes }
}(though, i would just make the poor hornist transpose. serves them right for playing the silly instrument...:)
josiah
What I *thought* \transposition did, and what the manual implies it does do, was convert parts to concert pitch as they were input.
If this were the case, then we don't need to give a damn about pitch and
midi - it'll just come out right anyway. And we don't need to worry about getting confused over which part is transposed in which key - they are all internally in C.
So - can I respectfully suggest we have a big bug here - either in the
manual or in the implementation of \transposition. And imho the bug should be in the implementation - by changing the implementation we don't change the current functionality as seen by the user, but we do make the manual correct, and we make the behaviour of \transposition both more consistent and more powerful.
Cheers, Wol
_______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
_______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
