Re: Newbie having trouble with transposition(s)

2017-11-11 Thread Patrick Smith
Hey list ... I wanted to thank all of you who responded. Your comments were very helpful and I've now incorporated all of them. I've completed my first transcription: J.S. Bach's Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus I from string quartet into brass quartet. _

Re: Newbie having trouble with transposition(s)

2017-11-11 Thread David Kastrup
bb writes: > Beside that monster "minimal"  example it becomes clear that with > % Global definitions > global = { >   \time 2/2 >   \key d \minor >   s1*78 >   \bar "|." > } > the key is set global. Global is global, so you get the key of d-minor > for the whole code. (It is a guess, I cannot ch

Re: Newbie having trouble with transposition(s)

2017-11-11 Thread bb
Beside that monster "minimal"  example it becomes clear that with % Global definitions global = {   \time 2/2   \key d \minor   s1*78   \bar "|." } the key is set global. Global is global, so you get the key of d-minor for the whole code. (It is a guess, I cannot check it with that code fragment.)

Re: Newbie having trouble with transposition(s)

2017-11-11 Thread bb
http://lilypond.org/tiny-examples.html Regards Am 11.11.2017 um 02:51 schrieb Patrick Smith: > Another first-time LilyPond poster/user here!  > > I've been using LilyPond for about a week now and I'm really loving it > already. > > I'm a brass player who is using LilyPond to create beautiful > en

Re: Newbie having trouble with transposition(s)

2017-11-11 Thread David Kastrup
Patrick Smith writes: > Another first-time LilyPond poster/user here! > > I've been using LilyPond for about a week now and I'm really loving it > already. > > I'm a brass player who is using LilyPond to create beautiful engravings for > brass ensembles. I'm also an engineer who wishes he was bet

Re: Newbie having trouble with transposition(s)

2017-11-11 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Welcome! :-) I've got most of the basics working however I'm having trouble with the > transpositions. They aren't working as I expected. I thought the > transposition function would take care of putting the parts into the right > key. But, all of the parts have a key signature of d minor (one fla

Newbie having trouble with transposition(s)

2017-11-10 Thread Patrick Smith
Another first-time LilyPond poster/user here! I've been using LilyPond for about a week now and I'm really loving it already. I'm a brass player who is using LilyPond to create beautiful engravings for brass ensembles. I'm also an engineer who wishes he was better at programming and LilyPond. An