On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, James Worlton <address@hidden>
wrote:
On Feb 20, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Mark Mathias wrote:
I really thought I understood the basic rules of note entry, but
this has surprised me:
\version "2.15.25"
\relative c' { \repeat unfold 2 { d4^\markup \italic pizz. fis a b |
c b a fis | }
\transpose c f { d^\markup \italic pizz. fis a b |
c b a fis | }
}
Why does the "c" (transposed to "f") jump down to a lower octave? I
thought \relative mode took care of this.
I fixed it by altering the c, but it goes against what I thought
I'd learned:
\transpose c f, { d fis a b |
c' b a fis | }
Notation Manual section 1.1.2 under "Transpose":
"This means that musicexpr is transposed by the interval between
the pitches
frompitch and topitch: any note with pitch frompitch is changed to
topitch and
any other note is transposed by the same interval. Both pitches are
entered in
absolute mode."
Note that the "frompitch" and "topitch" are entered in absolute mode.
James Worlton
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<bug transpose.pdf>