2015-09-10 20:32 GMT+02:00 Simon Albrecht <[email protected]>: > Hello Andreas, > > Am 10.09.2015 um 19:38 schrieb Andreas Stenberg: >> >> Hi! >> >> I'm editing an 18-th century piece with several voices and "movements" >> where the source; an early print, has a printing error for the first >> movement of the piece. In all the Voices for that movement the key is given >> as G-major when it obviously should be D- major as in the rest of the >> movements. > > > In the Baroque period it was still fairly common to allude to church modes > in key signature, e.g. > – d ‘minor’ without a flat or { \key d \dorian } (also with other minor > keys) > – e ‘minor’ without a sharp or { \key e \phrygian }. > From this point of view, I think (without knowing the exact context of > course) it’s possible that it was not by mistake that the editor wrote { > \key g \mixolydian }. > > But this doesn’t impede the editorial decision to use two sharps in your > print. (It might lead to confusion with ambiguous notes, though.) > >> Is there any way to get a bracket on the c- sharp in the key signature for >> D - major? > > > With LilyPond, all things are possible! It just depends on the amount of > programming involved… In this case, the actual programming has already been > done by David Nalesnik (kudos!) for the thread starting here > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-08/msg00373.html>: > providing an alternative print routine for KeySignature (and > KeyCancellation, which you’re likely not going to need), which allows > individual handling of the accidentals. > I modified this such that it doesn’t do coloring, but parenthesizing. >
Also available: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/change-the-key-signature-td148427.html#a149165 David's engraver is much nicer, though. Cheers, Harm _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
