Re: Mode transformations?

[David Kastrup]

Daniel Ley <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>      I'm very new to LilyPond, but I have not been able to find a
> functionality that enables me to convert a series of notes from one mode to
> another with a shared root note.  For instance, I couldn't find something
> that will allow me to convert a series of notes from C Major directly to C
> Lydian.  If there is already a way to do this, please let me know,
> otherwise, I would be interested in trying to help implement this in any
> way I could.
>
> Thanks,

Take a look in the Notation manual at "Modal transposition".
\modalTranspose should allow you to transpose from C Major to F Lydian,
and then you can use \transpose on the result to get down to C Lydian
again.

A bit contorted but reasonably workable.

-- 
David Kastrup