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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: Strange transposing effect
From:       "Trevor Daniels" <t.daniels () treda ! co ! uk>
Date:       2011-05-26 17:24:48
Message-ID: C40B2344101B452ABFEB49F15697C662 () TrevorLaptop
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D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote Thursday, May 26, 2011 6:10 PM


> On Thu, 26 May 2011 09:58:41 -0700
> Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks.  That kind of explains the first issue but I still 
>> > don't
>> > understand why the D should dip down instead of up in the 
>> > transposed
>> > section.
>>
>> Not exactly but absolute D is a fifth lower than absolute A.
>
> Right.  That's why I thought that it would go up a fourth instead.

No, the nearest-note algorithm applies only in
relative mode.  In absolute mode the D is below
A in the same octave.

Trevor




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