I have created my first LilyPond file, using Frescobaldi. (LilyPond 2.18, Frescobaldi 2.0.12)
It's a madrigal by Verdelot, 4 voices, titled Dormend'un giorn'a baia I've transposed it down a minor third. My question is: is the way I coded the transposition the most efficient one? I uploaded the file. Dormend__a_minor.ly <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n156730/Dormend__a_minor.ly> As instructed in the LilyPond manuals I separated the content and the structure. There is a variable 'sopranonotes', a variable 'sopranowords', etc. and those are inserted in the structure. Now, of course I want the original and the transposed version both available, with the file remaining a single file. I don't want to create a situation where I have two versions, the original and the transposed version, and having to update both of them if the conductor asks for, say, a different text placement. Currently the 4 voices are transposed individually. So if I want do undo/redo the transposition I have to comment out the transposition in 4 separate places. Is there a way to use built-in LilyPond functionality so that there is a _single_ point in the code for setting the transposition? I tried embracing the entire score part of the source in a \transpose a fs { ... } but the parser didn't accept that. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Efficient-transposition-tp156730.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
