Re: Changing transposition during a score

[David Kastrup]

David Sumbler <david@aeolia.co.uk> writes:

> I have a piece which is in D-flat major, with a middle section which is
> in C-sharp minor.  Both of these keys are more easily written a
> semitone lower so I have tried to use \transposition, but I can't get
> this to work.
>
> For instance, with the following code, Lilypond throws out a "Spurious
> expression in \score" error message when it meets the 2nd
> \transposition line:
>
> \version "2.24.3"
> \language "english"
>
> \score {
>   \transpose c df {
>     \relative c'' {
>       \key c \major
>       c
>     }
>   }
>   \transpose c cs {
>     \relative c'' {
>       \key c \minor
>       c
>     }
>   }
> }
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Putting two music expressions in one \score.  \score only accepts a
single music expression.

This has nothing to do with transpositions.  You are missing an
enclosing { ... } around both of your parts in order to form a single
sequential music expression from them.

-- 
David Kastrup