-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 31. August 2008 schrieb Bertalan Fodor: > I think in this way this is a bad practice and I wouldn't call it German > tradition. The best traditional practice is to use small letter and the > quality mark together: hm
The German tradition is really that capital letters indicate major, small letters mean minor mode. So if you see "Mass in C", it is in c major, if you see "Mass in c", it's c minor. It's only natural that people, who grew up with that convention, also want to use it to denote chords. Wikipedia also says the following about major/minor chord naming (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkordsymbol): - -) Usually, chords are notated as C and Cm - -) To some extent it is also custom to notate minor chords with small letters Cheers, Reinhold - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIuu/gTqjEwhXvPN0RAqPXAJ4kHavpLa18ZcLFsB3w/aZOklT/YgCeLYZe KDqopoK8kgd99OJqOxUtWds= =3SVj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
