Re: Transposition Confusion

[David Kastrup]

Thomas WillNot <address@hidden> writes:

> Here is an small example from the trumpet part of my score:
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> \relative c''' {
>   
>   \transposition bes
>    \key bes \major
>     \time 2/2
>          r4\f g-. d8-. c8-. g4-.
>          c4-. d4-. r2
>          r4 g-. d8-. c8-. g4-.
>          c4-. d4-. r2
>          r4 g-. d8-. c8-. g4-.
>          c4-. d8-. g8-. d4-. c8-. g8-. }
>
> I am using the score wizard from Frescobaldi, and this is pretty well the
> way it set it up.  It is resulting in a part with two flats when there
> should be none.  From what I am reading it seems like I am right to use
> \transposition rather than \transpose since the notes are entered as they
> look in the printed score.
>
> Please let me know what I'm doing wrong!

Writing \key bes \major since the key also needs to be entered as it
looks in the printed score, namely as \key c \major .

-- 
David Kastrup