Re: French Horn - transposing

[Jeff Kopmanis]

I use the transpose function just before rendering stuff.  Here's a typical file that should demonstrate what I do.  The \book sections at the bottom are where the transpose is done, while the Melody variable contains the music.  If I have chords, I'll use the \transpose function in the same way.

 EverydayPeople-Ab.ly

On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 7:24 PM Knute Snortum <ksnortum@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 3:49 PM TJ Kolev <tjkolev@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings!

So I've been notating a piece for my son's school band (junior high). Copying the music from paper into LilyPond using Frescobaldi. And now I hit a wall. The music piece is written for french horns in E flat pitch. But the band's horns are in F pitch. I need to transpose the score appropriately. The band director expects staff with three flats (E flat major). I hope there's some easier way to do this than me manually re-writing the score. And I am not even sure how to do that. I would appreciate any help.

I've never used it myself, but there is a whole section on transposing music in the manual:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.24/Documentation/notation/displaying-pitches#instrument-transpositions

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