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Re: Printing transposed versions
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Laurent Martelli |
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Re: Printing transposed versions |
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Sun, 08 Dec 2002 17:25:57 +0100 |
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>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Dixon <address@hidden> writes:
Peter> On 06 Dec 2002 at 20:28, Simon Bailey wrote: <snip>
>> i recently typeset a march for our concert band. we have
>> instruments in F, E-flat, B-flat, C and one crazy guy who plays a
>> D trumpet, but cannot transpose. using lilypond, i could write
>> all parts of the march for c instruments and just transpose the
>> parts to the correct keys for the relative instruments. including
>> a part for the d-trumpet which was a matter of changing one line
>> of code...
Peter> <snip>
Peter> I have been doing a similar exercise. After having done 8
Peter> songs, changing two lines (transpose line and a subtitle to
Peter> say which instrument) and recompiling for each instrument, I
Peter> got fed up and decided to try automating it. I wrote an
Peter> \include .ly file (see below) which is included in each song.
Peter> The main script produces a score with harmony and guitar
Peter> chords for keyboard, etc, and the \include script produces
Peter> scores on separate pages for all the instruments, properly
Peter> headed and transposed.
You lay have a look at http://www.bearteam.org/~laurent/partitions/.
I've built myself a set of scripts to automate the process for my jazz
tunes too. It's based on a makefile.
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Laurent Martelli http://jac.aopsys.com/
address@hidden http://www.bearteam.org/~laurent/