On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 5:39 PM Mogens Lemvig Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to forward another argument for the use of \relative. > > I have used Lilypond for several years, but I am certainly not a professional > musician or music typesetter. The music I set is not overly complicated - > usually up to five of six (vocal) voices on up to maybe six pages. I seem > unable to remember which octave is c' through c''. Memorizing this is likely > simpler than memorizing that the derivative of arctan(x) is 1/(1+x²), but > while the latter to me is rock solid, the former is a fleeting breath. > Therefore I always end up taking a wild guess for the first note of my > \relative; once that note has been corrected, the rest is mostly right. > Using \absolute would, for me, be a nightmare of wrong octaves.
I use the attached PDF to help me remember absolute pitches in LIlyPond. I've attached it (and the source file that produced it) in case it helps you. -- Knute Snortum
note-chart.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
\version "2.22.0"
{
c4_"C" g_"G" c'_"C'" g'_"G'" |
c''4^"C''" g''^"G''" c'''^"C'''" g'''^"G'''" |
\clef bass
c,,4_"C,," g,,_"G,," c,_"C," g,_"G," |
c4_"C" g^"G" c'^"C'" g'^"G'" |
}
