I believe the original post asked for how it was *commonly* referred to as. My reply was either transposition or displacement. Neither one of these ways is most or exactly accurate. We should, as I've said before, fall back on the standard reference volumes for music ... those are Harvard Dictionary and the Groves Dictionary or Music and Musicians.
Personally I like the way Groves has side stepped the issue and merely recorded the standard terms which are in Italian. We should keep to the accepted standards as much as is possible. One thing is very certain, it is extremely frustrating to find music with instructions in a language I do not understand when it is possible to give the same instructions in terms which are almost universally accepted in that particular type of music. In this case it is Western European Music. Nothing in the history of music has been decreed or set down in stone, in general musicians have agreed upon a standard way of communicating. Lilypond should adopt those as far as is possible. To be sure, much has transpired in the past 150 years that no one could have foreseen. So we have atonal music and the need to have ways of addressing those needs. As far as is possilbe, that should be done in terms which are easily understood by most musicians. I'm sure that the writers of both Harvard and Groves have already had these discussions. Lets learn from them and save ourselves the hassle of repeating those same discussions. We also will have music from non-european traditions to address, so we all have to keep that in mind as well. Cheers, David > > > According to Harvard dict. of music 4th ed.: > > > Transposition. the rewriting or performance of music at a pitch other > > than the original one. > > It does not imply change of key in all contexts, keys have meaning only in > tonal music anyway. > -- David Fedoruk B.Mus. UBC,1986 Certificate in Internet Systems Administration, UBC, 2003 http://recordjackethistorian.wordpress.com "Music is enough for one's life time, but one life time is not enough for music" Sergei Rachmaninov _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
