On 4/29/10 3:12 PM, "Graham Percival" <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 02:51:59PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote:
>> On 4/29/10 2:42 PM, "Graham Percival" <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>> c\chord #'(4 1 3 5)
>>>
>>> I'm not entirely comfortable about have 4 1.
>>
>> I'm totally comfortable with #'(4 1 3 5). I can easily parse that so that
>> steps that come before 1 in the list are an octave down from the current
>> pitch.
>
> Huh. I thought 4 1 3 5 was supposed to be a first-inversion
> chord, but instead you were thinking of
> F C E G
> ? on first glance, that seems like an odd chord, but as a string
> player I get nervous when there's only two notes at once, let
> alone four.
C/F, i.e. a C major chord with an F added in the bass.
>
> How would you indicate a highly-separated chord? Such as
> (absolute mode)
>
> d f' d'' a'''
<d f' d' a'> in relative mode, or
d\chord #(1 10 15 19)
>
>> I'd prefer, if we need to do something, to do
>>
>> #'(4, 1 3 5), i.e. use the octave indicators we already have.
>
> Hmm. I don't know... mixing apostrophies and commas with numbers
> seems odd.
Well, my preference was to not do anything. I don't think that apostrophes
are needed, because we can make steps be 8, 15, etc.
I suppose we could make an F in the bass (of a C chord) be notated as
-4, and the next octave below as -11, but that requires the user to think
beyond the scale degree. I much prefer 4, (for the fourth scale degree down
one octave) and 4,, (scale degree 4 down two octaves).
Thanks,
Carl
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