Re: Reverting to atonal or open key

2013-09-02 Thread Keith OHara
Micah Walter haverford.edu> writes: > Is there a way to revert to a key-free area? The third line below. You might want the first two, as well. \bar "||" \set Staff.lastKeySignature = #'() % if you want to hide the cancellation \set Staff.keySignature = #'() % no key

Untransposable music [was Re: Reverting to atonal or open key]

2013-09-01 Thread Jim Long
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 11:05:39PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > Well, you could do something like > > \withMusicProperty #'untransposable ##t \key c\major > > It's not terribly fabulous, but possibly will do the trick. Oh, but it IS terribly fabulous! This is what I was looking for last May

Re: Reverting to atonal or open key

2013-08-31 Thread David Kastrup
Micah Walter writes: > In Lilypond, there is a distinction between specifying \key c \major and > leaving the key blank. Not really. > In the former case, transposing instruments will change the key > signature accordingly, while in the latter case, no key signature will > be added. Using \tran

Reverting to atonal or open key

2013-08-31 Thread Micah Walter
In Lilypond, there is a distinction between specifying \key c \major and leaving the key blank. In the former case, transposing instruments will change the key signature accordingly, while in the latter case, no key signature will be added. Using \transpose c d, for instance, will add two sharps if