Re: Setting relative pitch as a global declaration?

[David Wright]

On Wed 09 Feb 2022 at 14:24:14 (+0000), Valentin Petzel wrote:
> 
> I think Alasdair does not want to specify relative at toplevel, but he has 
> his voices in multiple consecutive parts, and he wants the whole voice to be 
> relative, instead of each part being separately relative. This can of course 
> simply be done using \relative pitch {\partA \partB ...}.

I think you've misinterpreted "part" as part of a movement, rather
than part being an instrumental part.

The OP will want to set the music as:

movement1_part1 = { notes, notes, and more notes }
movement2_part1 = { notes, notes, and more notes }
movement3_part1 = { notes, notes, and more notes }

to do what they posted, ie,

\relative c { \movement1_part1 \movement2_part1 \movement3_part1 }

This will enable them to set part2 for a high- or low-pitched
instrument with one modification, and without changing the
pitch of part1:

\relative c' { \movement1_part2 \movement2_part2 \movement3_part2 }

or

\relative c, { \movement1_part2 \movement2_part2 \movement3_part2 }

Cheers,
David.