Re: Transposing instruments

[Guy Stalnaker]

Thanks everyone who replied. I understand the relationship between /transpose and /transposition now. FYI the proper commands that produce the expected outcome is:

/transpose f c' {

  /transposition c {

  }

}



Guy Stalnaker

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On Jan 30, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Wim van Dommelen <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Guy,

Your problem is that you did not specify the language, then it defaults to Dutch.

I guess you want:

\transpose bes, f { ... notes ... }

but:

\transpose f c' { }

does the same, both move you up exactly one kwint/scale.

Or:

\language "english" % only once at the beginning of the file

\transpose bf, f { ... notes ... }

Mind the ' and , in these examples!!!!!

Regards,

Wim.

On 30 Jan 2013, at 08:10 , Guy Stalnaker wrote:

I used to think I was smart :-\

I'm arranging some church hymns for six-part instruments, Flute, 2 Violins, 2 F Horns, 1 cello.

Hymn is in F major. Arrangement is notated in LP in F major. How do I get the Horn parts correctly engraved in the proper key? I have tried

\transpose f c'

and

\transpose bf f'

and

\transpose c f

and various other combinations. Reading the manual it looks like it should be

\transpose bf f'

But no matter what I select the midi output is horribly wrong. The midi output is only correct if I comment out the \transpose directive. The midi output clearly changes when I use the \transpose directive, so it seems as if midi is being altered by using \transpose. Unfortunately it's being altered incorrectly.

Thanks,

Guy

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