Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-12-01 Thread Shane Brandes
A.G.O, American guild of organists has sight transposition tests for their certification program, but I think they only go a third from the printed key. regards, Shane On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 10:14 PM Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Hi David, > > We have a similar tradition in Australia (British colony?

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-12-01 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi David, We have a similar tradition in Australia (British colony?) in organ playing. That's why I thought the other key sig. is redundant. Andrew On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 at 09:38, David Wright wrote: > > In my experience, the convention in church music in Britain is that > organists can transpos

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-12-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 30 Nov 2018 at 18:14:20 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > HI Mark, > > Yes I note in both examples the key sigs are a semitone apart. Is this some > convention in some church music? OP, help us out. I don't even know what to > google for! In my experience, the convention in church music in

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-12-01 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Fr., 30. Nov. 2018 um 12:02 Uhr schrieb Tyler Mitchell : > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11:09:52AM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > > Probably it's enough to use the music-function-default-arguments, > > which can be omitted with newer versions, i.e.: > > > > alternativeKey = > > #(define-music-functi

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-30 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11:09:52AM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > Probably it's enough to use the music-function-default-arguments, > which can be omitted with newer versions, i.e.: > > alternativeKey = > #(define-music-function (parser location p-1 p-2 scale-def) > (ly:pitch? ly:pitch? number

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-30 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Fr., 30. Nov. 2018 um 09:19 Uhr schrieb Tyler Mitchell : > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:10:16PM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I once made below (here a little lifted up): > > > [...snip...] > > > > HTH, > > Harm > > Thanks, Harm, I'll give it a try, but it looks like I'll need to

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-30 Thread Tyler Mitchell
By the way, I don't know what this is called, properly -- I've been using words like 'parenthesized' or 'parenthetical' or 'second' or 'secondary' key signature, but if there is a proper name for it (and while I'm wishing, the rules for when to print it or not), I'd like to know, too. Tyler _

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-30 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 06:14:20PM +1100, Andrew Bernard wrote: > HI Mark, > > Yes I note in both examples the key sigs are a semitone apart. Is this some > convention in some church music? OP, help us out. I don't even know what to > google for! > > Andrew Yes, Mark and David have it right -- i

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-30 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:10:16PM +0100, Thomas Morley wrote: > Hi, > > I once made below (here a little lifted up): > [...snip...] > > HTH, > Harm Thanks, Harm, I'll give it a try, but it looks like I'll need to get on the -devel branch first. (I quickly attempted it on 2.18.2 but it didn't

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread bobr...@centrum.is
Mailing List" > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 7:14:20 AM > Subject: Re: Parenthesized second key signature > HI Mark, > > Yes I note in both examples the key sigs are a semitone apart. Is this some > convention in some church music? OP, help us out. I don't even know

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread Andrew Bernard
HI Mark, Yes I note in both examples the key sigs are a semitone apart. Is this some convention in some church music? OP, help us out. I don't even know what to google for! Andrew On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 02:55, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote: > > > Perhaps the purpose is to indicate the possibility

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread Thomas Morley
Am Do., 29. Nov. 2018 um 11:57 Uhr schrieb Tyler Mitchell : > > I'm trying to figure out how to add a "parenthesized" second key > signature to my music, something like this: > > https://www.ldx.ca/tmp/paren-key-1.png > > I experimented with adding t

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread David Wright
emitone. And if you're a keyboard player who doesn't like playing in five flats, you can cheat and pretend the piece is in two sharps (but don't tell the singers!). > On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 21:57, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out how to add a

RE: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread Mark Stephen Mrotek
: lilypond-user Mailinglist Subject: Re: Parenthesized second key signature Hi Tyler, Pardon my appalling kindergarten level ignorance, but what does this even mean, to have two key sigs. together? I realise I am making a fool of myself here! Andrew On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 21:57, Tyler

Re: Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Tyler, Pardon my appalling kindergarten level ignorance, but what does this even mean, to have two key sigs. together? I realise I am making a fool of myself here! Andrew On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 21:57, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to add a "parenthesize

Parenthesized second key signature

2018-11-29 Thread Tyler Mitchell
I'm trying to figure out how to add a "parenthesized" second key signature to my music, something like this: https://www.ldx.ca/tmp/paren-key-1.png I experimented with adding two \key commands one after the other, but I get the error: foo.ly:5:9: warning: Two s