Re: Transposing instruments

[Vaughan McAlley]

On 30 January 2013 19:47, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> There is a Midi-only command for _then_ telling LilyPond that the
> instrument is transposed.  So you need to place your horn part within
>
> \transpose f c' { \transposition f ... }
>
> in order to have the visuals go up one fifth, and have the Midi
> compensate for that.
>

It would be great if that could be in the documentation for
\transposition. At the moment the documentation assumes you wish to
enter music as the musician sees it, which involves transposing from
sounding pitch (unless you’re transcribing an existing part). As we
all know, computers do transposition better than humans :-)


Vaughan