To make transposition work correctly in PMX, you must
1. enter the transposition command (e.g., K+2+4, which Silas did OK)
2. enter "Ar" (which Silas apparently did not do)
3. use the relative acidental convention when coding accidentals (which in
the case of the Eb, Silas actually *did* do without realizing it, because in
this case there is no difference)
For me, the easiest way to understand the relative accidental convention is
to realize that the accidental tells you how much to shift the pitch
compared to what it would be if the accidental were not there. In contrast,
with the ordinary convention, the accidental tells you how much to shift the
pitch compared to what it would be if you were in the key of C major.
--Don Simons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Silas S. Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 12:56 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Possible bug in PMX transposition
>
> Hi,
>
> The PMX manual states that K+2+4 in the first block should transpose a
> whole score from C major into E major.
>
> I used K+1+2 to transpose from C major into D major. The original had
> some flatterned thirds (E flats), which should have been transposed to
> F naturals in D major. However, PMX wrote F flat.
>
> It seems that PMX does not adjust the accidental when transposing.
>
> --
> Silas S Brown, St John's College Cambridge UK
> http://www.flatline.org.uk/~silas
>
> "Earth itself has been given into the hand of the wicked one" - Job 9:24
