\header { title = "Major Scales" subtitle = "Flats (1.5 octaves)" arranger = "Scott Russell" } \version "2.12.2" %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % DEFINE the variable "scale" to have these characteristics: % use relative pitch notation, % key of C Major, % don't print bar numbers at line beginnings, and % scale printed with quarter note "do" at beginning, middle, and end. scale = \relative c' { \override Score.BarNumber #'transparent = ##t \key c \major c d8 e f g a b \noBreak c d e f g f e d \noBreak c4 b8 a g f e d \noBreak c2. r4 \bar "||" \break } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % DEFINE the variable "flatscales" to contains transposed versions of "scale" flatscales = { \transpose c f, \scale \bar "||" \transpose c bes, \scale \bar "||" \transpose c ees \scale \bar "||" \transpose c aes, \scale \bar "||" \transpose c des \scale \bar "||" \transpose c ges, \scale \bar "||" \transpose c ces \scale \bar "|." } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % DEFINE the variable "music" to concatenate "scale" and "flatscales" music = { \scale \flatscales } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Create the complete score, printing "music" \score { #(set-default-paper-size "letter") << \music \new Lyrics \lyricmode { C Major \skip 2 \skip 1 \skip 1 \skip 1 F Major \skip 2 \skip 1 \skip 1 \skip 1 \markup { B\flat } Major \skip 2 \skip 1 \skip 1 \skip 1 \markup { E\flat } Major \skip 2 \skip 1 \skip 1 \skip 1 \markup { A\flat } Major \skip 2 \skip 1 \skip 1 \skip 1 \markup { D\flat } Major \skip 2 \skip 1 \skip 1 \skip 1 \markup { G\flat } Major \skip 2 \skip 1 \skip 1 \skip 1 \markup { C\flat } Major \skip 2 \skip 1 \skip 1 \skip 1 } >> } \paper { system-count = #8 }