On Jan 23, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Patrick Schmidt wrote: > nice work! I just think that the name modal transposition is a little > misleading in this case. At first I thought that I could change the mode of a > tune with your function e.g. transpose music from c\major to c\minor or > something like that.
That's not changing the mode of a song. That's changing the key. C major has no sharps or flats, C (natural) minor has three flats (C harmonic minor and C melodic minor are special cases in terms of notation). Modes are within a single key: Ionian, Dorian, Phyrgian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian starting on the 1st through the 7th scale steps with in the key, respectively. > I just had the idea that it might be useful to add some more scales to the > standard LP mode names (\ionian, \dorian ...) such as e.g. \majorPenta, > \minorPenta. Maybe there's a way to extend your code and/or the function of > the existing \transpose-command to also be able to do real modal > transpositions such as e.g. > > <pseudo-code> > \transpose c\ionian c\locrian \mymusic %or > \transpose c\majorPenta c\minorPenta \mymusic % etc. > \transpose c a \pentatonicmusic %or > </pseudo-code> > > This way users wouldn't have to declare scales and when no modal change is > intended we could just use \transpose. Changing from C Ionian to C Locrian is a key change, not a modal change. C Locrian is the seventh mode of Db major. C major pentatonic is a different key than C minor pentatonic, the latter having the same key signature as Eb. Since "modal transposition" necessarily happens within a single key, I am not sure that "transposition" is the correct terminology (IMHO modes are largely a waste of time for performing musicians but that's a whole 'nother discussion that doesn't belong here). _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
