James E. Bailey wrote:
El 01.03.2009, a las 01:12, Tim McNamara escribió:
A common jazz lead sheet convention is to parenthesize optional
chords written over the melody staff. An example is a turnaround at
the end of a song that is not played the last time through. For
example in "Easy Living" the turnaround over the last two bars of the
second ending is (using the default language conventions):
f2 aes2:7
des2:maj7 c2:7
Rather than writing a separate ending, I'd like to just parenthesize
the last three chords over the final two bars so they would render:
F ( Ab7 Dbmaj7 C7 )
This approach is commonly used in jazz lead sheets rather than
writing multiple endings within multiple endings or adding codas.
I've been plowing through the documentation and have searched the
Web, which has extensive stuff about parenthesizing but nothing that
I have found to suit the need I have.
You could probably just add the Text_engraver to the ChordNames
context, and include it as markup.
Yes, this works, but I found that the markups need to be attached to the
chornames with _ or ^, so you need to #'extra-offset them to get them on
the same line as the chordnames.
If you try to add Note_heads_engraver to the ChordNames context, so you
can attach markups to spacer notes, you get actual notes for your chords
above the staff as well!
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