A music expression can be transposed with \transpose
. The
syntax is
\transpose from to musicexpr
This means that musicexpr is transposed by the interval between
the pitches from and to: any note with pitch from
is changed to to
.
For example, consider a piece written in the key of D-major. If this piece is a little too low for its performer, it can be transposed up to E-major with
\transpose d e ...
Consider a part written for violin (a C instrument). If this part is to be played on the A clarinet, the following transposition will produce the appropriate part
\transpose a c ...
\transpose
distinguishes between enharmonic pitches: both
\transpose c cis
or \transpose c des
will transpose up
half a tone. The first version will print sharps and the second
version will print flats
mus = { \key d \major cis d fis g } \context Staff { \clef "F" \mus \clef "G" \transpose c g' \mus \transpose c f' \mus }
Program reference: TransposedMusic (lilypond-internals) , and UntransposableMusic (lilypond-internals) .
If you want to use both \transpose
and \relative
,
you must put \transpose
outside of \relative
, since
\relative
will have no effect music that appears inside a
\transpose
.
This page is for LilyPond-2.5.11 (development-branch).