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Re: Transposing an entire score
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Transposing an entire score |
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Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:03:50 +0100 |
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address@hidden writes:
> I have a piece of choral music written in 7 parts. It's around 80 bars long.
> It's in the key of F major, which is too low for my choir.
> I'd like to transpose it up 3 semitones to A flat major.
> I'm new to Lilypond and the syntax gives me nightmares. I read the
> manual's section on transposing and now have a headache.
> Please could someone either give me an idiot's guide to how to do
> this, or amend the enclosed.
Your score somewhere has a single music expression containing all the
notes, probably in the form of
\new ChoirStaff
<<
\new Staff ...
\new Staff ...
>>
You put \transpose f' a' before that single expression. That's all.
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David Kastrup
Re: Transposing an entire score, Flaming Hakama by Elaine, 2017/11/08