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 > > -- God becomes known through men and women who know him: the road to him passes through those who have encountered him. ---Benedict XVI
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