Re: Transposing instruments

[Francisco Vila]

El 15/2/20 a las 18:10, Kieren MacMillan escribió:
> Hi Pierre-Luc,
>
> > I now feel a weight have been lifted from my shoulders.
>
> Well, I hope we don’t hear from you years from now saying “For what it's worth, 
> I wish somebody would have told me earlier that I
> should use clefs rather than transpositions.”  LOL
>
> Cheers,
> Kieren.

Just like LilyPond allows engraving a simple song with

  \score {  { b } \addlyrics { Bee } }

(you'd never engrave an opera this way, but you also don't want to be 
unnecessarily overkilling), LilyPond allows the simple case of engraving 
guitar music in G clef and, if no more complex use is to be made from 
this (e.g. reusing) then all is fine. You can get correct pitches on 
MIDI by \transposition.

You can, alternatively, enter correct pitches and a false clef which 
moves the music an octave up and hides the 8. The fact is, guitar music 
is usually written in plain G clef and this is known to sound an octave 
lower. It's common practice.

I also agree on guitar being no essentially different to e.g. clarinet 
on this respect.

So my question for Kieren is, for large scores involving transposing 
wind instruments along with strings etc, how do you manage this by using 
only clefs and no transposition?

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Francisco Vila, Ph.D. - Badajoz (Spain)
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