I tried this code

\version "2.19.42"
someNotes= { c d e f a }
theNotes =  \relative c' \transpose c d' {
  {
    \someNotes
  }
}
#'()
\theNotes
\transpose e f \theNotes

which produced nothing unexpected on my system even when transposed again.
Could you add an example for notes?

Greetings,
Manuela

2017-05-20 9:28 GMT+02:00 Don Gingrich <gingr...@internode.on.net>:

> I had the idea that all that I needed to
> do to convert a score from, for example, F to G,
> was to wrap a \transpose f g {  } around the
> \relative block where I had entered the notes in
> F. And that is actually correct.
>
> But it seems that some really weird things happen
> if, as I did recently, one screws up the order and
> has:
>
> theNotes =  \relative c'' \transpose c d''{ {
>  some notes
> }
> }
>
> I'm noting this it the hope that it may save someone else
> the agro that I experienced with notes jumping
> all over the place.
>
> The order is *critical* to having transpose work as
> expected.
>
> This is sort-of a solution in search of a problem but
> it may save someone else some frustration.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Don
> --
> Don Gingrich
>
>
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