On Tuesday, 21 September 1999, Juergen Reuter writes:
> lilypond detects a chord with weird adds, it should just drop them
> and only regard the "important" notes of the chord? But what are
> important notes and how could you determine them? You probably would
This is hairy. Also, as I understand it, musical theory can name any
chord: why decided that some kind of chord is too 'difficult', and drop
adds/subtr?
Maybe, we could play dirty and let the user specify (= read from
init file) a list of tricky chords (as pitch lists) with their
'logical name' (bass, tonic, modifiers, additions).
For chords not in the list, we use a simple algorithm, much like we
do now.
> have to make a harmonic analysis which, I think, is beyond the scope
> of lilypond as a type setting system... Again arrgh!
>
> BTW., Jan, the correct spelling is "vermindert", not "verminderd" :-),
*blush* mixing Dutch and German there..
> and "augmented" translates to "uebermaessig" (does Banter not use
> "Cueberm"?).
Yes, he does. (nl:overmatig).
Jan.
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