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Re: Chord Naming


From: Martin Tarenskeen
Subject: Re: Chord Naming
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:26:24 +0200 (CEST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23)



On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, James Bailey wrote:


On 25.04.2010, at 01:46, Tim Rowe wrote:

In other words, I want C major 7 to show as Cmaj7, not as C with a
triangle next to it.

Check out this snippet:
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=459

Um, well, thanks I suppose. I can't make any sense out of that
whatsoever. Does this mean that I have to learn Scheme to get Lilypond
to produce (what I think of as) standard chord notation?

Yes. And No. If you look at that snippet, the very first bit, the chExceptionMusic defines what the chords should look like, in markup. In terms of getting the chords to look the way you want, you only need markup.


I agree with Tim: Such a simple and very commonly used chord notation like "Cmaj7" (Personally I prefer "C Maj7") deserves or a simpler syntax or a simpler and easy to find example in the docs. Tim is not the only one who couldn't make any sense out of that example. That's why, until now, I have been using the triangle notation for maj7 chords when using Lilypond, even though I never use that notation in any of my handwritten scores. BTW: I'm not a jazzman either.

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Martin




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