Transpose song in Frescobaldi.

[Brian Durant]

How do I transpose a song in Frescobaldi? I have copied a song that I need to transpose from B Flat Major to A Major. I have found a menu item under tools --> pitch --> transpose/modal transpose/mode shift, but I am unsure which to use or what to put in the dialog boxes. I have otherwise been dealing with a relatively complex score without serious problems, but this has me flummoxed. Any help for a newbie?

[g...@ursliska.de]

This is "Pitch->transpose".
If you select anything that is transposed, otherwise the whole file.

HTH
Urs

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[Brian Durant]

Thanks for the quick reply. I would like to transpose the entire file. When I go into pitch --> transpose, I am asked to enter two absolute pitches separated by a space. What is the syntax (in English)?

Best,
Brian

[g...@ursliska.de]

Am 14. April 2017 18:40:26 MESZ schrieb Brian Durant <globetr...@gmail.com>:
>Thanks for the quick reply. I would like to transpose the entire file.
>When
>I go into pitch --> transpose, I am asked to enter two absolute pitches
>
>separated by a space. What is the syntax (in English)?

It is what you would pass to the \transpose command in LilyPond: from to.

So entering
c d
will transpose a whole tone upwards.
(You could play around with a tiny sample to get a feeling of it, BTW)

Urs

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>Best,
>Brian
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>On Friday, April 14, 2017 at 6:18:46 PM UTC+2, Urs Liska wrote:
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>> Am 14. April 2017 17:57:25 MESZ schrieb Brian Durant
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[Brian Durant]

Nope, it doesn't really work for me. I am not trying to transpose an instrument part. I copied a score so that it would be for flute, but if it is flute, piano, C Melody saxophone or whatever instrument is in "C", doesn't really matter for my purposes. The original key that the piece was written in, is not the key that it was performed in. That is why I need to transpose the entire song from B Flat Major to A Major. It is a popular song, so there aren't different orchestral parts either. I just need to do a vanilla transposition from B Flat Major to A Major.

[Brian Durant]

OK, so by using \transpose bf a \flute, I can get a transposed song, but the untransposed version starts underneath the transposed version.

I placed \transpose bf a \flute just above \score. I assume that it needs to be placed somewhere else, but every place I have tried creats an error.

On Friday, April 14, 2017 at 5:57:25 PM UTC+2, Brian Durant wrote:

[Brian Durant]

The solution that I found was the following:

    }

flutePart = \new Staff \with {
  instrumentName = "Flute"
  midiInstrument = "flute"
} \flute

\score {
  <<
    \transpose bf a \flutePart
  >>
  \layout { }
  \midi {
    \tempo 4=80
  }
}
 

I am not sure why that works and other solutions don't, but this solution certainly works for me with Frescobaldi.

[Brian Durant]

With regards to another song, but still on the same topic, I am experiencing two problems with a transposition planned from the beginning and not the result of a need to change the key of the song after it has already been copied:

1) It isn't possible to view and follow the notes being written (copied) in the original key, as it doesn't appear to be possible to switch to "transposition mode" at the very end (see comments in my snippet below.
2) I am getting the following error (for an unknown reason) in both (original) and (transposition) mode. The error is as follows:

"Processing `/tmp/frescobaldi-42_kk9e5/tmphpzo93jo/unforgettable.ly'
Parsing...
/tmp/frescobaldi-42_kk9e5/tmphpzo93jo/unforgettable.ly:31:13: error: unrecognized string, not in text script or \lyricmode
  d,4 e4 e8
            fis4
Interpreting music...
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Interpreting music...
MIDI output to `unforgettable.midi'...
warning: no such MIDI instrument: `cmel sax'
warning: no such MIDI instrument: `cmel sax'
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `unforgettable.ps'...
Converting to `./unforgettable.pdf'...
fatal error: failed files: "/tmp/frescobaldi-42_kk9e5/tmphpzo93jo/unforgettable.ly""

My code snippet follows:

}

flute = \relative c'' {
  \global
  % Music follows here.
  \compressFullBarRests R1*4
  g4 a4 a8 b4 b8( b2)
 
}

cmelSax = \relative c'' {
  \global
  % Music follows here.
  d,4 e4 e8 fis4

}

flutePart = \new Staff \with {
  instrumentName = "Flute"
  midiInstrument = "flute"
} \flute

cmelSaxPart = \new Staff \with {
  instrumentName = "C Mel Sax"
  midiInstrument = "cmel sax"
} \cmelSax

\score {
  <<
    \flutePart
    \cmelSaxPart
  % \transpose g f \flutePart These commands are in quotes as there is no visual of original score before transposition.
  % \transpose g f \cmelSaxPart
  >>
  \layout { }
  \midi {
    \tempo 4=100
  }
}

[Knute Snortum]

What is \language set to?

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[Knute Snortum]

"fis" isn't a pitch in \language "english".  It should be "fs".

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On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:11 AM, Brian Durant <globetr...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Brian Durant]

Great. Thanks. I guess I didn't check on some of my earlier scores. I got used to writing "fis" and "bes". What is a flat note in Lilypond English?

[Knute Snortum]

bes would be bf.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/writing-pitches#note-names-in-other-languages

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