Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

[Grammostola Rosea]

Tim McNamara wrote:
> On May 30, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
>
> > On 5/30/09 3:21 AM, "Brett Duncan" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> > > > Do we have an Jazz/pop chord expert on the list (I'm sure he/she 
> > > > exist)?
> > > > And who wants to help with this?
> > >
> > > I don't consider myself an "expert", but after 20 years of playing with
> > > various pop, rock and jazz groups, I've got a pretty good idea of 
> > > what's
> > > out there as far as chord notation goes, and I'm willing to be part of
> > > the discussion. I'm also willing to help on the programming side _if_ I
> > > can get my head around Scheme.
> > >
> > > Brett
> >
> > On 5/30/09 3:32 AM, "Tao Cumplido" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > >
> > > > Do we have an Jazz/pop chord expert on the list (I'm sure he/she 
> > > > exist)?
> > > > And who wants to help with this?
> > >
> > > I wouldn't call myself an expert but I do know some display methods for
> > > chords. I don't know if pop chords differ much from jazz though but 
> > > if it's
> > > for sharing knowledge on jazz chords count me in.
> > > I could make a table with a rough overview of the variations for 
> > > chord names I
> > > am aware of and maybe some information on different typographical 
> > > approaches I
> > > know of.
> >
> >
> > My currently-planned starting point for chord naming is
> >
> > http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory17.htm#namechords
> >
> > If you have any disagreement with this reference, please let me know.
>
> The problem with this sort of thing is that there is really no 
> standardized nomenclature and there is a lot of personal preference.  
> For example, some people like Fmaj7 and others like F-delta (F with a 
> triangle), or Dm7b5 versus DØ, etc.  Satisfying all personal 
> preferences might be impossible.  However, that reference table looks 
> reasonable to my eyes.  My preferences were pretty strongly formed by 
> the old Real Book 5th Edition.
>
> There are some chord name exception files that have been written by 
> other LilyPond users.  Two of them were generously sent to me by James 
> Hammons  and B Duncan.  These could be good references to look at, 
> since the chord names look pretty good to me, and might be more easily 
> incorporated without a lot of extra work.  Let me know if you want me 
> to post them.
Isn't it possible to give more options and be able to choose an way of 
noticing?

For example

\europe

\vs

\Berklee

\realbook

\fakebook


Just examples to show what I mean...


Regards,

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