Lilypond Transposition

FSSPmusic

I am in need of a transposed edition of CPDL #34161 from D minor up to F minor. I imagine this must be an easy thing to do, but I really don't know how to use LilyPond at all. Can anyone help?

a_f_hawkins

Google's first response -

Consider a piece written in the key of D-major. It can be transposed up to E-major; note that the key signature is automatically transposed as well.

\transpose d e {
\relative {
\key d \major
d'4 fis a d
}
}

[image of music]

I imagine it is simple as prefixing the entire piece with the instruction
\transpose d f (
and appending )

chonak

A \transpose command would be wrapped around each segment of notes, as in the example above.

If you have trouble getting this to work, post a link to the Lilypond file and I or someone else can probably make the edit to demonstrate.

FSSPmusic

The file is available here:
https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/3/36/Jachet_de_Mantua_-_Spem_in_alium.ly

chonak

This was tricky because of the 'incipits' before the start of the score. Here's the transposed version: would you check it, please?

FSSPmusic

Thank you, @chonak, this looks beautiful! I hope it didn't take up too much of your time. I was also able to copy and paste into Frescobaldi with the same results.

FSSPmusic

Also in F minor, formatted to letter paper with treble clef for alto

FSSPmusic

Well, I thought it was formatted to letter! More proof that I really don't know what I'm doing :(

chonak

You can set the paper size with a one-line addition:

\paper
	{ 
	#(set-paper-size "letter")
	top-margin = 1.7 \cm

For more info, see
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/paper-size-and-automatic-scaling

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