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Chord names alternative

Chord names are generated from a list of pitches. … …1.7.20, compared with an alternative Jazz chord notation and Harald Banter's (1987) notation. A … …maintained, however, some features have been lost (mainly chord exception lists) and bugs have been introduced.

%%%% Legacy chord naming functions (formerly in scm/chord-generic-names.scm) %%%% Copyright (… …pitches bass inversion context) "Entry point for @code{Chord_name_engraver}. @var{pitches}, @var{bass}, and @var{… …e g bes des' ees' fis' aes'> % altered chord } %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % alternate Jazz notation efullmusicJazzAlt = { <c e gis>1-\…

Invert notes in a chord

…of functions to: - drop notes in a chord (like jazz drop2), - rise notes in a chord - invert chords

…0 oct)))))) music))) %% drop a note of a chord, in num position from above dropNote = #(define-music-function (… …num down) music)) %% rise a note of a chord, in num position from below riseNote = #(define-music-function (… …var{music} into their @var{num}-th position. (Chord inversions may be directed downwards using negative integers.)") (…

…same articulation above and below a note or chord

…can stick scripts (just like fingerings) inside a chord, which means it is possible to have as … …To mimic the behaviour of scripts outside a chord, 'add-stem-support would be required. The solution is thus to write the note as a chord and add the articulations inside of <...>, using the …

…stopStaff s1 \startStaff <>^"Works if written inside a chord" <e_\flageolet d'^\flageolet>2 <e_\flageolet d'^\…

Customizing Chord Symbols - Global

To make global changes to chord symbols, you can re-define the chord-symbol markup as …

…this definition in your \layout block makes the chord markup changes effective globally \layout { \context { \ChordNames chordNameExceptions = …

…Beses , 19=A#) Second number: row (1=diminished chord, 2=7th chord, 3=minor chord, 4=major chord, 5=root note, 6=counter bass note) If …

…markup p n) ;; make the name from a chord with pitch p in row n ;; you get … …1=diminished chord, 2=7th chord, " } " 3=minor chord, 4=major chord, 5=root note, 6=counter bass note)" "If …

Changing a single note's size in a chord

Individual note heads in a chord can be modified with the \tweak command inside a chord, by altering the font-size property. Inside the chord (within the brackets < >), before the note to be …

…laissezVibrer tie to only one note of a chord [obsolete in 2.23]

…laissezVibrer tie to a specific note in a chord, for instance in a piano fingering where one finger of a chord should temporarily act as a pivot while the other fingers are moving to the the next chord. Here is a way to achieve it.

Customizing the chord grid style

Custom divisions of chord squares can be defined through the measure-division-lines-alist and … …give the fraction of the measure that each chord (or rest, or skip) represents. More precisely, a … …the respective chords. This example defines a peculiar chord grid style that has a rule for measures …

Melody with chords. Chord diagrams described on top of the score.

Problem: How to display chord diagrams on top of the score? The chord diagrams description is a \score block in a …

Creating fret diagrams with chord names but no staff/staves using fret diagram …

…snippet shows how to create fret diagrams with chord names but no staff/staves, for a fret … …Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-fretted-strings#predefined-fret-diagrams ("It is common that both chord names and fret diagrams are displayed together.") and …