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    <p>Currently I write <a href="/questions/tagged/lilypond" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;lilypond&#39;" rel="tag">lilypond</a> code that looks like this:</p> <pre><code>\version "2.14.2" P = #parenthesize \relative c, { \clef bass &lt;c \P c'&gt; &lt;e \P e'&gt; &lt;g \P g'&gt;2 &lt;c, \P c'&gt;4 &lt;d \P d'&gt; &lt;e \P e'&gt;2 } </code></pre> <p>where I repeatedly mean '<em>this</em> note, together with the same note one octave higher, parenthesized'.</p> <p>I'd like a way to abbreviate this, so that I can write something like this:</p> <pre><code>\version "2.14.2" poct = ... \relative c, { \clef bass \poct c \poct e \poct g2 \poct c,4 \poct d \poct e2 } </code></pre> <p>As suggested in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/19412939/223837">a helpful answer to an earlier question of mine</a>, I have tried to use <a href="http://lilypond.org/doc/stable/Documentation/notation/using-music-functions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a music function</a>, but there is no way I can get this to work. The closest I can get is</p> <pre><code>poct = #(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?) #{ &lt;&lt; $note \transpose c c \parenthesize $note &gt;&gt; #}) </code></pre> <p>but this uses <code>&lt;&lt;</code> .. <code>&gt;&gt;</code> instead of <code>&lt;</code> .. <code>&gt;</code>, which does not render the way I want (and with warnings), and I have no idea why the <code>\transpose c c</code> actually transposes anything. </p> <p>Finally, tangentially related, when experimenting with music functions I found it even impossible just to create a music function that mimicks <code>\repeat unfold 2</code>; the following jumps down an octave between the third and fourth <code>c</code>:</p> <pre><code>\version "2.14.2" double = #(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?) #{ $note $note #}) \relative c, { \clef bass \double c \double e \double g2 \double c,4 \double d \double e2 } </code></pre>
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    1. COWhy the downvote? This _is_ a programming question, and the domain is the Lilypond/Scheme combo of languages.
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    2. COThat downvote was just ridiculous. This question is well researched, well written, full of tiny examples AND _LilyPond_ questions concerning programming (and not composing/notating music) DO belong here at _StackOverflow_.
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    3. COAnd one more comment, regarding your question about `\transpose c c`. Well, on my version 2.17.28, it indeed does nothing (as I expected). But if you use `\transpose c c'`, then it will transpose everything one octave up (from c to c'). Try `\relative c' { a4 \transpose c c a r2 | a4 \transpose c c' a r2 }`, which should render firstly two identical notes a (not transposed because `\transpose c c` doesn't do anything) and then two other notes a, the second being one octave higher.
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