Re: \transposition question

2017-09-01 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
So helps forcing the use of the « simplest » pitch, while I thought it was used to help forcing the use of the enharmonic one. Now I understand. Thanks Simon for this enlightenment, and a nice day! JM > Le 1 sept. 2017 à 12:31, Simon Albrecht a écrit : > > On 01.09.2017 12:09, Jacques Menu M

Re: \transposition question

2017-09-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.09.2017 12:09, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: Hello Simon, The 7 semitones are there anyways, since the markup is mandatory… Of course it is, else you’d never know if it’s horns in F or in F# (yes, there is such a thing). But in addition you have the information that it’s 5 diatonic steps

Re: \transposition question

2017-09-01 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
Hello Simon, The 7 semitones are there anyways, since the markup is mandatory… JM > Le 1 sept. 2017 à 10:23, Simon Albrecht a écrit : > > On 01.09.2017 09:35, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: >> But then, why is the markup present in MusicXML? > > A few days ago, in the Music Engraving Tips forum

Re: \transposition question

2017-09-01 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 01.09.2017 09:35, Jacques Menu Muzhic wrote: But then, why is the markup present in MusicXML? A few days ago, in the Music Engraving Tips forum on Facebook, we had a discussion about why Čaikovskij spells what sounds a B major chord in the Horns in F as . In short: A# is very uncomfortabl

Re: \transposition question

2017-09-01 Thread Jacques Menu Muzhic
t; To: Menu Jacques mailto:imj-...@bluewin.ch>> > Cc: Lilypond-usermailinglist <mailto:lilypond-user@gnu.org>> > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:52:00 +0100 > Subject: Re: \transposition question > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:50:05PM +0200, Menu Jacques wrote: > > Hello

Re: \transposition question

2017-08-31 Thread Flaming Hakama by Elaine
-- Forwarded message -- > From: Gregrs > To: Menu Jacques > Cc: Lilypond-usermailinglist > Bcc: > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:52:00 +0100 > Subject: Re: \transposition question > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:50:05PM +0200, Menu Jacques wrote: > > Hello

Re: \transposition question

2017-08-31 Thread Gregrs
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:50:05PM +0200, Menu Jacques wrote: Hello folks, I’m trying to understand how \transposition works with enharmony. In the following, what key should be chosen (instead of D major) in the fourth score for a soon-to-be-created Trumpet in A#? For the Trumpet in Bb, th

Re: \transposition question

2017-08-31 Thread Simon Albrecht
On 31.08.2017 21:50, Menu Jacques wrote: I’m trying to understand how \transposition works with enharmony. In the following, what key should be chosen (instead of D major) in the fourth score for a soon-to-be-created Trumpet in A#? I don’t get it. Technically, you could write Ebb major, that’

Re: transposition question

2010-11-17 Thread Xavier Scheuer
On 17 November 2010 22:15, Christopher Meredith wrote: > > Sure, just transpose it to des instead of cis and set the key accordingly. Agree. There is also a snippet in the doc, which can be useful: "Transposing pitches with minimum accidentals ("Smart" transpose)" http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Do

Re: transposition question

2010-11-17 Thread jakob lund
why not just "\transpose es des" instead of "es cis"? (say if you're transposing from e-flat?) Jakob. 2010/11/17 Christopher Meredith : > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Alex Jones wrote: >> >> I am using lilypond for a transposition solution.  Unfortunately, when >> doing the transposition,

Re: transposition question

2010-11-17 Thread Christopher Meredith
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Alex Jones wrote: > I am using lilypond for a transposition solution. Unfortunately, when > doing the transposition, the shift is to keys where it would make sense to > write the notation in the enharmonic key. > > E.g. the new key is c-sharp major and it would b