Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least)

2009-02-10 Thread Tao Cumplido
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:21:17 -0500 > Von: David Raleigh Arnold > An: lilypond-user@gnu.org > Betreff: Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least) > Quick recognition is the whole purpose of chord names of this type. True. > C/e is mu

Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least)

2009-02-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David (et al.): In sheet music convention there is no difference whatever between Cdim and Cdim7. Many people like you and I like to include the 7 to be unambiguous, but nothing can be done about Cdim except to write it as Cm(b5) if the triad is desired. Though its usage is hardly widespr

Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least)

2009-02-10 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Monday 09 February 2009, Tao Cumplido wrote: > Yes, that's true. > > Actually I prefer myself to write D#°7 for full diminished chords. > For some people it seems illogical though that D#ø should automatically represent a seventh-chord and D#° shouldn't. > > I just wanted to point out that th

Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least)

2009-02-09 Thread Tao Cumplido
rd, in this > case D# F# A C > > > > Original-Nachricht > > > >> Datum: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:54:45 +0100 > >> Von: "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" > >> An: "James E. Bailey" > >> CC: lilypond-use

Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least)

2009-02-09 Thread Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)
+0100 Von: "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)" An: "James E. Bailey" CC: lilypond-user Mailinglist Betreff: Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least) It's ds:dim (ds fs a triad, actually) James E. Bailey wrote: I don't do very much with chord symbols, an

Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least)

2009-02-09 Thread Tao Cumplido
> Betreff: Re: new chord symbol (for me, at least) > It's ds:dim > > (ds fs a triad, actually) > > > > James E. Bailey wrote: > > I don't do very much with chord symbols, and so I don't know what all > > of them mean. I'm engraving so