Ah, ha. That does it! Putting the \transposition in the score (in front
of \trumpetNotes, \clarinetNotes, \altoSaxNotes) is counter-intuitive since
those "music variables" are already in concert pitch. Interesting.
Anyway, that's exactly what I needed. Thanks so much!
-Russ
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Malte Meyn <lilyp...@maltemeyn.de> wrote:
>
>
> Am 03.08.2015 um 00:29 schrieb user3871075:
>
>> Malte - I understand that only doing transposition at the score level
>> would
>> work. However, I'm entering some music from printed instrument parts so
>> I'd much prefer to enter them "as is" instead of have to transpose in my
>> head.
>>
>
> Ok, I misunderstood this (I thought you wanted to enter all music in
> sounding pitch).
>
> You can do the following: Enter written pitches and transpose them to
> sounding pitches. Store that in trumpet/clarinet/altoSaxNotes.
>
> Now use this sounding music to build the score. Use the transpose and
> transposition in the score to get back to written pitches and correct
> quotes.
>
> %%%%%%%%
>
> \version "2.18.2"
>
> trumpetNotes = \transpose c' bes \relative c'' {
> c4 c c c
> }
> \addQuote "trumpet" \trumpetNotes
>
> clarinetNotes = \transpose c' bes \relative c'' {
> g4
> \quoteDuring #"trumpet" { s }
> g g |
> }
>
> altoSaxNotes = \clarinetNotes
>
> <<
> \new Staff \with {
> instrumentName = "trumpet"
> } \transpose bes c' {
> \transposition bes
> \trumpetNotes
> }
> \new Staff \with {
> instrumentName = "clarinet"
> } \transpose bes c' {
> \transposition bes
> \clarinetNotes
> }
> \new Staff \with {
> instrumentName = "alto sax"
> } \transpose ees c' {
> \transposition ees
> \altoSaxNotes
> }
> >>
>
> %%%%%%%%
>
> And
>> I'll keep in mind that the '#' and "" are optional for \quoteDuring. I
>> typically just copy/paste examples from the documentation.
>>
>
> The safe way is to use at least "" and sometimes even # is necessary, but
> lilypond is flexible and sometimes it’s less to type if you leave them out.
> So if you know what you do it’s fine ;)
>
> For example,
> instrumentName = trumpet
> will do the same as
> instrumentName = "trumpet"
> but
> instrumentName = bes
> will fail because ‘bes’ is recognized as a pitch name and not as a string.
>
> And
> \tweak #'font-size 4
> will do the same as
> \tweak #'font-size #4
> but in a \markup you need the # and
> \font-size 4
> will fail.
>
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