I have a simple problem which I've never before faced, and I'm hoping
there exists a simple solution about which someone can tell me.
I play and write music for classic guitar, so I use "\clef "treble_8""
in my scores (classic guitar sounds an octave lower than the music
notation).
I want to arrange a Bach chorale for guitar. My score for the chorale is
a nightmare. I can barely read bass clef, and can do that in my mind,
but the scores for soprano, alto, and tenor all use C-clefs, and in a
way that each score must be read in a unique way. I've never before seen
a score like this. The notes fit nicely on the staff, but I cannot read
them without a lot of mental gymnastics.
Is there a way simply to input the notes to a lilypond file as if they
were in my normal G-clef, such that, for example, the F-clef for the
bass part, where the note is placed on the top line of the staff (an A),
I would record it as an F, then magically move the notes up or down
enough semi-tones to get to a correct placement on the treble_8 clef, at
which point I add key signature to my *.ly file and I'm ready to begin
my transposition, using the PDF output to play from...?
This is what I'd do mentally, if that were all I COULD do, but it hurts
my brain to think about doing this for all the parts, using C-clefs
which are placed wherever it was convenient to place them by the
composer (I wonder if Bach did this, or was it someone else...?).
The more I think about this the more I think there must be a way to do
it, and only using Lilypond, but I don't know what it might be.
I look forward to the response of this forum, which I have to say is
without doubt the most helpful of the many to which I belong.
t.
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