4.14.5 Transpose

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 from and to.

\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 =\notes { \key d \major cis d fis g }
     \score { \notes \context Staff {
       \clef "F" \mus
       \clef "G"
       \transpose c g' \mus
       \transpose c f' \mus
     }}

See also

TransposedMusic (lilypond-internals), and UntransposableMusic (lilypond-internals).

Bugs

If you want to use both \transpose and \relative, then you must put \transpose outside of \relative, since \relative will have no effect music that appears inside a \transpose.

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