Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-27 Thread David Bobroff
On 11/27/2011 11:38 AM, James wrote: David, On 27 November 2011 11:17, David Bobroff > wrote: On 11/27/2011 12:40 AM, James wrote: Hello, This seems to be a very basic question but I can't work out how to do it. Take a piece of music; for examp

Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-27 Thread James
David, On 27 November 2011 11:17, David Bobroff wrote: > On 11/27/2011 12:40 AM, James wrote: > > Hello, > > This seems to be a very basic question but I can't work out how to do it. > > Take a piece of music; for example: > > { a b c d | a b c d } > > Then shift it down half a tone withou

Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-27 Thread David Bobroff
On 11/27/2011 12:40 AM, James wrote: Hello, This seems to be a very basic question but I can't work out how to do it. Take a piece of music; for example: { a b c d | a b c d } Then shift it down half a tone without altering the key signature. -- -- James

Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-27 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 27 November 2011 11:21, James wrote: > It's because of the \relative I think; the Notation Reference does actually > talk about this - I don't think of 'transposing' without thinking about the > changing of the key signature, which I don't want to do. Hence I didn't even > think to use \transp

Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-27 Thread James
Jacob, On 27 November 2011 10:33, jakob lund wrote: > You could use \relative for the first entry step... like this > > Music = \relative c' { > a b c d | a b c d | > } > > \score { > \key d \major > \Music > \transpose d des \Music > } > > Thank you, that does keep my key signature too, bu

Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-27 Thread jakob lund
You could use \relative for the first entry step... like this Music = \relative c' { a b c d | a b c d | } \score { \key d \major \Music \transpose d des \Music } -- Jakob 2011/11/27 James : > Ole, > > On 27 November 2011 01:05, ole wrote: >> >> a b c d | /transpose c b, { a b c d }

Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-27 Thread James
Ole, On 27 November 2011 01:05, ole wrote: > a b c d | /transpose c b, { a b c d } > > or do I misunderstand it completely? > > ole > No you didn't :) Thank you for responding to what seemed a _very_ basic question. What I should have said was Take a _lilypond file_ , for example %%% \versi

Re: How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-26 Thread ole
a b c d | /transpose c b, { a b c d } or do I misunderstand it completely? ole Am 27.11.2011 um 01:40 schrieb James: > Hello, > > This seems to be a very basic question but I can't work out how to do it. > > Take a piece of music; for example: > > { a b c d | a b c d } > > Then shift it do

How to shift music up/down a semi tone without changing key signature

2011-11-26 Thread James
Hello, This seems to be a very basic question but I can't work out how to do it. Take a piece of music; for example: { a b c d | a b c d } Then shift it down half a tone without altering the key signature. -- -- James ___ lilypond-user mailing lis