Re: minor chords (and a possible transition to a new topic)

[David Kastrup]

Robert Schmaus <address@hidden> writes:

> So, again, it boils down to whatever works. There's no standard to
> this, and frankly, I've never experienced that as a problem. Jazz
> music is improvised music, and I don't know a jazz musician who has
> problems "improvising" here as well. Everyone has different
> preferences, sure, but problems reading different styles - not at all.
> My own preference for C-Δ7 over, say, Cmmaj7 is simply a question of
> space: the latter takes up WAY too much of it (in particular as this
> chord often appears as a transition between C- and C-7 and uses only
> half a bar).
>
> But there's another thing that surprises me in this discussion: I
> always thought that Lilypond is mainly being used and intended for
> "classical" (exact) music.
> Now I have the impression that indeed many use it for jazz sheets as
> we'll - I, myself, use LP only for that, but can't move from version
> 2.16 to 17 or 18, because the possibility to have Staffs accept chord
> names has been removed.

Please don't spread rumors.  It works as before:

<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/context-layout-order>

This has been fixed in 2.17.30, issue 3641.  So it most definitely does
not preclude you from moving to 2.18 or 2.19.

> That is, however a common notation practice in jazz music. Is there an
> obvious replacement for this that I haven't seen yet ... or is no one
> but me using that notation style in LP?

N/A

-- 
David Kastrup