This will depend on who else is seeing the music.
For example I transpose a lot of music for the conductor of my orchestra
(as some of us can't do it in our heads that easily), but I always set
it in the original (i.e. if the conductor has it in A on their score I
set it in A). That way if there any mistakes made I can always go back
to the original rather than have to work out the mistakes to fix.
It also allows for a lot more flexibility for any other instruments who
may take the parts - we don't have a full complement of instruments so
for those instruments we don't have we spread them around others that
may not necessarily be in the same key.
I then set up duplicate lines in my \score {..} and simply comment out
the transposition I don't want.
Also, because it helps me, I actually use \transpose c c { \music } so
that when I have a long list
\score {
<<
%\transpose c c { \music }
\transpose a bes { \music }
%\transpose a ees { \music }
%\transpose a d { \music }
>>
}
and so on. I use the >> as I also add first and second parts at the same
time and depending if the requirement is to have two staves or a single one.
It's easy to see which line gives me the original key when I am flicking
between the two for checking.
One other tip though, after typesetting a long piece and fiddling about
with line breaks and positioning the fermatas/rehearsal marks and so on,
when you transpose, the position of the staves can change dramatically
(especially if you move from say, f major in A to a B flat instrument
when yuo suddenly get 4 sharps - this will add lots of accidentals and
also the 4 sharps take more room at the beginning of each line than 1
flat does - and this can really mess things up.
So I would not bother tweaking too much if you are finally going to
transpose in one key and it changes things.
James
Kirill wrote:
Hi LilyPond Gurus,
I cannot quite find figure out from the manual which is a better practice when
typesetting transposing instruments (say, a B\flat clarinet):
1) Specifying \transposition bes { ... } and then writing out the
transposed part. Or
2) Using \transpose bes, c {\transposition bes ...} and notating in C?
Thanks.
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