Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

[Grammostola Rosea]

Tim McNamara wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Tim Rowe wrote:
>
> > 2009/6/1 Carl D. Sorensen <address@hidden>:
> >
> > > You are welcome to pursue this, if you are interested in it.  It is 
> > > not my
> > > interest.
> >
> > I think it shows the impossibility of what you are trying to achieve,
> > at least in the completely general case, although pushing the
> > boundaries closer to that general case is valuable of course. Beyond
> > trivial cases, a combination of notes does not have /a/ name, it has
> > many names depending on the musical context.  For jazz chords, the
> > chord notes and the chord names really need to be separated (perhaps
> > an optional name following the notes) unless the software can
> > understand the musical context better than a lot of musicians. Or just
> > stick with chord mode.
>
> Particularly when entering the notes and the root is not the chord 
> name.  For example, a chord I saw in a Pat Martino chart would have 
> included:
>
> <d des fes aes>
>
> which was written as Dbmin/D.  I have no idea how one would make 
> LilyPond properly interpret slash chords or compound chords from note 
> entries.  Rendering chords written as chord names (des2:m5/d) would of 
> course be simpler.
I agree with this.

Couldn't there be an 'automatic chord mode' and an 'mode which just 
display the chord names', not the notes?

\r