Re: Setting relative pitch as a global declaration?

[Valentin Petzel]

Hello Alasdair,

I don’t think anyone here has a problem with you asking questions. After all 
this list is for users to help users. And in the Lilypond manual it can be 
hard to find very specific things.

Anyway. What you want to do is very well possible, see this example:

test = { c a }
\relative c' { c \test }

The important  think is to have the \relative { } around everything you want 
to have relative. Maybe you’re only having it for the first variable?

Cheers,
Valentin

Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2022, 08:16:37 CET schrieb Alasdair McAndrew:
> I'm sorry about all these damn-fool queries of mine; I promise to go back
> under my rock soon.  Anyway:
> In the current 18th century suite I'm typesetting (for two treble
> instruments without bass), there is a separate variable (containing the
> notes) for each part of each movement.  Then there are global declarations
> about the instruments, and the key and time-signature of each movement; and
> these are all brought together in score blocks.
> 
> The one thing I don't know how to do is to declare the relative pitch
> globally.  Thus, each music variable looks like
> 
> movement1_part1 = \new Voice \relative c'' { notes, notes, and more notes }
> 
> The difficulty is that I want to re-set the second part for a bass
> instrument, so it might start off as
> 
> movement1_part2 = \new Voice \relative c { notes, notes, and more notes }
> 
> Currently this means changing the relative pitch for each movement
> individually.  It would be much more efficient to be able to do this just
> once at the beginning, with an appropriate global declaration.  Can this be
> done?  Is there a way to set the relative pitch of some music in a \global
> block?
> 
> (Note, I have indeed RTFM, but it's quite hard - even with the search
> function - to find answers to this, or examples of such use.  Hence this
> message...)
> 
> Thank you,
> Alasdair

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