Re: triangle chord notation

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:40:08 +0200, Johannes Schöpfer wrote:

> 
>> So if the given notes generated a name like "Em7add11add13" now, I would
>> prefer to see "Em7(11 13)" (where the 11 and 13 are stacked vertically
>> with one set of parenthesis).
> 
> it would be great if th input-syntax would be equal to the printed
> chordsymbols in the output. there would be no need that lilypond
> recognizes all kinds of chordinput. that would avoid something like
> "Em7add11add13"(nobody on this world would write a chord in this style).
> 
> c:6.9 would print "c6/9"

C69.  Slashes are bass only.

At one time, slashes were used for polychords.  Bb/C was a complete
C11.  Why not bring that back and complete the nightmare?  C6add9 is good
too, but there is nothing ambiguous about C69.

> as same chord-symbols can be played diffrently depending on the harmonic
> context

 it is maybe not useful that lilypond plays the chords in the
> midi-files.

The better thing to do is to extract desired chords from selected
libraries and include them in a custom file and have the user voice
the others himself.  That way chords could be 'piano-comp' or
'guitar-bass' or 'piano-guitar-bass' or ...

The midi files should only contain those parts in the midi block anyway. 
That's by far the easiest to understand, and \all could play everything.
It would also be made possible to enable parts not even present in the
score.

 "band-in-a-box" is a program only for this reason and has
> also problems to do it correctly.

Why?  daveA

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