Re: New question - Threepenny Opera. Urgent, please help!
Well, if you can't transpose at sight yourself and you haven't got time to write it out in full then you have several options. First, learn to play it in the original key, then write the chord symbols in the NEW key above the piano part and learn to play your own arrangement in the new key. This is the best option for your development as a musician. Second, get a student to write it out in full; he/she will do it cheap. Third, as David Kastrup said, you could borrow or rent a keyboard (and amp/speakers?) with a transpose button for the performance. Of course it depends on whether that's appropriate for the gig. Fourth, hire a more experienced musician to play/transpose it for the performance. Finally, if none of the above work, get back to me to write it out for you. This will be the most expensive option. My advice is, if you can't manage option one then hire the more experienced pianist. All the best, Gerard On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Rosel Labone wrote: > Hello oh helpful, lovely people of LilyPond Land! > > I just purchased two Kurt Weill pieces but they are in the wrong key. I > need them transposed before next Saturday, or I need someone who already > has them in the correct key?? > > The pieces are: > > Pirate Jenny - needs to be transposed from A minor a tone lower, to G minor > Solomon Song - need to be transposed to F# major > > I can forward you the PDFs if you can help me out... > > This is a matter of some urgency and anyone who can help will have my > undying devotion! > > Thank you in advance, > > Rosel > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
Re: New question - Threepenny Opera. Urgent, please help!
Rosel Labone writes: > Hello oh helpful, lovely people of LilyPond Land! > > I just purchased two Kurt Weill pieces but they are in the wrong key. > I need them transposed before next Saturday, or I need someone who > already has them in the correct key?? > > The pieces are: > > Pirate Jenny - needs to be transposed from A minor a tone lower, to G > minor > Solomon Song - need to be transposed to F# major > > I can forward you the PDFs if you can help me out... > > This is a matter of some urgency and anyone who can help will have my > undying devotion! One would need to type them off. Once you have them available as LilyPond source, transposing is trivial. It is unlikely that you have a problem with getting the singing voice transposed, so the amount of material that needs to get typed in depends on the version. Probably a piano voice. If this is a one-time performance, it might make sense to check for the availability of a good-quality electronic piano: those can usually be made to transpose on the fly. Actually retyping music is quite a bit of work, and since Weill most certainly is still copyrighted, the result can only be legally used by somebody already having purchased the original score from which the transcription has been made. So since the benefits would be to you alone, you would have to expect to pay a reasonable price for getting somebody to invest this kind of grunt work. It is unlikely that you could learn enough LilyPond to get this job done yourself until next Saturday, but it could make sense to learn how to use this tool in order to be able to work with it in future. -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
New question - Threepenny Opera. Urgent, please help!
Hello oh helpful, lovely people of LilyPond Land! I just purchased two Kurt Weill pieces but they are in the wrong key. I need them transposed before next Saturday, or I need someone who already has them in the correct key?? The pieces are: Pirate Jenny - needs to be transposed from A minor a tone lower, to G minor Solomon Song - need to be transposed to F# major I can forward you the PDFs if you can help me out... This is a matter of some urgency and anyone who can help will have my undying devotion! Thank you in advance, Rosel ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
