Hello: The only term I've ever heard in english for this is "octave displacement" and its notation is 8va ...... dotted line over the affected passage.
I lieu of any other acceptable english terminology I'd go with Groves as it widely accepted as a standard English language reference work for music. I believe that Groves in right in deferring to the Italian since that is the usually accepted language for musical terminology. Octave transposition seems a confusing, since transposition in music usually implies that the passage is to be played in a different key. Octave displacement does not change the key. Cheers David -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for music" Sergei Rachmaninov _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
