I think I understand that part, but why, in this outlined blues bass line,
does output of the transposed version suddenly skip a major 7th downward
and then a major 7th back up?

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, James Worlton <[email protected]> wrote:

>  On Feb 20, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Mark Mathias wrote:
>
> I really thought I understood the basic rules of note entry, but this has
>> surprised me:
>> \version "2.15.25"
>> \relative c' { \repeat unfold 2 { d4^\markup \italic pizz. fis a b |
>>   c b a fis | }
>>  \transpose c f  { d^\markup \italic pizz. fis a b |
>>   c b a fis | }
>> }
>>
>> Why does the "c" (transposed to "f") jump down to a lower octave? I
>> thought \relative mode took care of this.
>>
>> I fixed it by altering the c, but it goes against what I thought I'd
>> learned:
>>  \transpose c f,  { d fis a b |
>>   c' b a fis | }
>>
>
> Notation Manual section 1.1.2 under "Transpose":
> "This means that musicexpr is transposed by the interval between the
> pitches
> frompitch and topitch: any note with pitch frompitch is changed to topitch
> and
> any other note is transposed by the same interval. Both pitches are
> entered in
> absolute mode."
>
> Note that the "frompitch" and "topitch" are entered in absolute mode.
>
> James Worlton
>
>


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