One more point: there’s also ‘pedal’ in MusicXML:
<harmony>
<root>
<root-step>C</root-step>
</root>
<kind>pedal</kind>
</harmony>
Is that just equivalent to having a usual pedal?
JM
> Le 13 sept. 2017 à 11:09, Menu Jacques <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> Excellent, thanks!
>
> JM
>
>> Le 13 sept. 2017 à 10:27, Mike Solomon <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
>>
>> hm, my answer is a bit out of lilypond scope, but if I understand your
>> question correctly, you want to understand what these chords are?
>>
>> they are three different pre-dominant chords that are taught to American
>> undergrads in a sophomore theory course.
>>
>> in E major:
>> Italian = C E A#
>> French = C E F# A#
>> German = C E G A#
>> Tristan = C D# F# A#
>>
>> in all of them, the C and A# in theory want to fan out to B (the dominant).
>> This is, of course, in theory - Wagner’s use of the Tristan chord, which he
>> clearly named his opera after, has the A# moving down to A, or the 7th of
>> the dominant (I’m transposing to fit w/ the example above). Wagner
>> obviously did not pay much attention during his sophomore music theory
>> course…
>>
>> ~Mike
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