Hi Carl, > 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.
They form a large part of my harmonic (composition and arranging) language. > 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. There definitely isn’t a standard… =\ > Do you have any source information that we could use to better understand > quartic chord notation? Not really. In the musical theatre world, the symbol C4 is starting to be widely understood as <c f c> (with a C in the bass and no 5th in the chord), as distinct from Csus4 which is <c f g c>; this parallels the use of C2 / Cadd2 / Csus2 as three different chords/voicings; but it’s also sometimes just written as F5/C In the classical world, I’ve seen attempts to make (e.g.) CQ4 a standard way to notate <c f bf> but I’ve never seen a real codified “system”. Sorry I don’t have more concrete info for you. I would just love it if whatever chord name system(s) we build for Lilypond are flexible and forward-proof enough to support a quartal naming convention (as just one example), if one ever gets established. Thanks, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
