On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 12:45 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> lilyp...@schoepfer.info writes: > > >>>> I hope to send something more specifically about chords after some > rest. > >>> > >>> Here are my 2cents: > >>> Defining the chords by a list of notes for jazz tunes can't ever > >>> cover all sorts of voicings. > >> > >> Are you confusing "pitch" and "note" here? Notes are a LilyPond data > >> structure that have more properties than just a pitch. Several are > >> already used for disambiguating chords entered in chord mode. > > > > Very likely, i don't know much of the lilypond internals. > > > >>> Fortunately, this isn't at all needed for typesetting e.g. a > >>> jazz-tune. It is sufficient to only have the root note, e.g. C from > >>> C:m7, in a musical/transposeable context, the rest of the chord(here > >>> m7) could just be represented as text as-it-is. > >>> > >>> Maybe, from this point of view, there could be an alternative method > >>> for typestting chords be implemented? > >> > >> I don't see what you are trying to achieve here. > > > > English is not my native language, but i try: > > I wanted to point out, that the idea to get e.g. > > c' e' g' a' from the chord c:6 is not really correct/complete and not > > of much use, for various reasons: > > -unclear in which octave > > -unclear which voicing > > -Not all pitches needed to be there(may be too much/dense) to make the > > chord clear > > -c' e' g' a' could be interpreded as chord a:m7 > > Please take a look at > > > > You'll find that the same notes can already be distinguished as either > chord/inversion. > > One question certainly is whether the information we use for that is a > good fit and whether it should be easier to create this kind of > information outside of \chordmode . > How would one create this information outside \chordmode? _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
