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Re: question about transposing an interval of a 4th


From: Cameron Horsburgh
Subject: Re: question about transposing an interval of a 4th
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:26:16 +1100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:49:10PM -0800, Graham Percival wrote:
> Then stick a \transpose c' g' in there.  Read the doc section
> about transposition for help.
> 
> ... I really don't understand this question.  If you already know
> how to transpose from C to Bb, why on earth do you need to ask how
> to transpose from C to G ?!
> - Graham

He wants it diatonic, so it's not that easy. \transpose c' g {a b c} 
would produce {e fis g} instead of {e f g}. Even then, the extra 
\relative makes things get very messy:

melody = {a b c d e f g}

\relative c''{

<<\melody \\ {\transpose c' g {\relative c''{\melody}}}>>

}


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Cameron Horsburgh

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