Kieren MacMillan wrote > Hi Peter, > >> I have a piece of choral music in 8 parts. It's too low for my choir to >> sing, so I want to transpose the entire piece up from the key of F to the >> key of A. >> I asked an almost identical question in November and the first answer I >> received worked. Unfortunately, it doesn't work this time, perhaps >> because the score is formatted differently. >> As a mere musician, I'm afraid many of the answers I received last time >> were too technical for me to understand, so I'd be really grateful for >> simplicity in responses. >> I'm enclosing the file, just in case someone wants to fix it for me. > > That's great… except it's * > such an old version * > of the application, I can't compile the file. > > Your code formatting/structure makes it * * > very * > * difficult (at least for me) to quickly figure out what’s going > right/wrong. > > ....... * > Note that the *only* difference between the two scores is the > \transpose c d * > immediately before the ChoirStaff (or GrandStaff, or whatever the > outermost <<>> construct is in your score) in the second score. That > single command transposes the entire score (i.e., everything inside the > <<>>), as desired. > > Hope this helps! > Kieren.
Whoa, I must have been in auto-pilot copy/paste /open file/ mode because I didn't even see it was 2.14 - wow that's quite old indeed. Thanks for giving us that mini-snippet transpose guide example, Kieren - that's very helpful! ----- composer | sound designer | asmr artist -- Sent from: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/User-f3.html _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
