On 5/24/17 4:51 PM, "Kieren MacMillan" <kie...@alumni.rice.edu> wrote:
> >> Some things that should be thought about: >> Is the 7 an extension? Or included in the quality the chord? Or maybe >>something else? > >Since we¹re starting from the ground up, can we not assume triadic >harmony for the input (even if the output makes it look like we do)? For >example, <c f bf> is not really, to my ears, a triadic chord with >extensions and suspensions, but rather a quartic ³triad². Maybe there¹s a >way to handle this kind of thing (and others) elegantly? > I had not heard of quartic chords before reading this email (as I've mentioned before, I'm a music novice). It was very interesting for me to study quartic chords. But in my web search and following links, I never found anything that approached a notation for quartic chords. Their existence was discussed, but I found no quartic-based notation; it was all just the notes. Do you have any source information that we could use to better understand quartic chord notation? Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
