Re: Template: String Quartet (score-only), first draft

[James E. Bailey]

Am 18.08.2008 um 09:14 schrieb Dmytro O. Redchuk:
> And, the question -- why global ?
>
> You set \clef in "melody" (although it is "Staff's property"), so  
> why not set
> \key and \time in "melody" (*Notes { ... })?

If you do an open score and closed score version of a choral piece,  
the tenor part changes clef between the two versions. And granted,  
lilypond uses the \clef that comes last in the file, it just makes for  
easier input to define the clef with the staff.