Hello Everyone, I would like to agree with Christian that changing transpositions mid-score would be useful. I have almost finished typesetting the Nonetto Op. 107 by Bertini; he switches between trumpets in F and D. It would be nice to be able to have the score indicate what was originally written, generate the parts which Bertini wrote (in case a player happens to have the original trumpets), automatically generate a part for a trumpet in Bb, and on top of that to have a midi file for aural proofreading.
Jim Bailey -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christian Mondrup Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 2:45 AM To: Werner Icking Music Archive Subject: Re: [TeX-Music] Transposition with abcpp and pmx Luigi Cataldi wrote: > Don Simons wrote: >> Does anyone know how well or easily any of the commercial programs handle >> these matters? Specifically >> 1. Score entered and printed in concert key, parts printed transposed; >> 2. Score entered in concert key, score and parts printed transposed; >> 3. Score entered transposed, score and parts printed transposed; >> 4. Score entered transposed, score printed in concert key, parts printed >> transposed; >> and MIDI file OK in all cases. > Finale allows to specify different staff attributes for transposing > instruments in his 'staff tools'. Then, from the 'options' menu, you can > choose to print the entire score in concert key or transposed. It seems > very simple, but I have no experience on this matter. > > I have some experience in the use of Score (very good but very old > musical editor). It uses an auxiliary program, PAGE, to transpose only > the entire score. It's possible to transpose the parts after the > extraction. It's possible enter transposed the parts of the transposing > instruments or to use the transpose command to make the conversion in a > second time, but you have to do it for every single system. A very > annoying thing! > > Mup has a simple and efficient method: you can specify the interval to > transpose the music data in score context (for the whole piece) or in > staff context (for transposing instruments) e.g. 'transpose = up minor > 6'. If you comment this line you can print the score and the parts in > concert key. > > With PMW you can transpose (in amount of semitones) the entire score > either in the heading directive (e.g.: transpose -2) or via -t option > when you invoke the program. You also can transpose a single staff in > the stave data directive (e.g.: [stave 1 treble 1 transpose 3 key c]). > In Lilypond you may configure staff-wise transposing in the header section. You may also change transposition mid-score, for example between clarinets in Bb and A, see http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-pit ches#index-transposing-instrument-1 -- Christian Mondrup, Archive Editor WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive http://icking-music-archive.org/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex- music _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
