Re: Roman numeral chord notation in lilypond

[Rick Hansen (aka RickH)]

Patrick Taylor Ramsey-2 wrote:
> 
> Hello, all.
> 
> I'm a bit flummoxed; I've been searching for the last hour and a half for
> a way
> to typeset roman numeral chord notation (ii, V65/V, N6) under a staff in
> lilypond.... and found nothing, except for a lone message dating from 2003
> stating that said notation wasn't yet supported.  Is this still the case? 
> And,
> if so, why?  It does seem like there are far more arcane notations which
> *are*
> supported... and this one is used by every beginning music theory course
> in the
> us (and most likely elsewhere)
> 
> Just curious.
> 
> PTR
> 
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You could enter it as a lyrics staff.  The big issue with roman is that when
a piece changes key for example what used to be a "III" chord is really not
a "III" chord anymore, unless you have some way to depict to the reader to
increment/decrement the key center by some other roman numeric value. 
Because the roman numerals are based on "current" key center.


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