On 3/28/19, Aaron Hill <lilyp...@hillvisions.com> wrote: > That said, I fully agree with advising folks who intend on moving music > around more fluidly to avoid \relative since it adds a maintenance chore > that would otherwise impede the creative process.
Heh. This is one of the (few) subjects I’d tend to disagree with Kieren about. Using \relative allows me to focus on the melodic movements (and thus the expressive musical phrases), regardless of the octave in which they’re taking place. Sure, it requires to be careful when cut-and-pasting, but that’s actually quite trivial all things considered. I suspect using Italiano/French note names as opposed to Dutch/English/German letter-as-notenames plays a role as well, as "do re mi" are much more vocal syllables (and ipso facto I often find myself singing while typing), whereas letters are more easily taken as mere symbols (rhemes) largely devoid of any intrinsical musical qualities and therefore more easily mixed with non-pronounceable syntax. At any rate, that’s the hypothesis I’d submit based on my own perception :-) Cheers, V. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
