Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > How is it "wrong" for the chord <c e g a> to [additionally] include the > information 'root = a'?
In some instances the root could be C and the A would be a passing tone. In other instances, calling any of those four tones a root would have no meaning. It would depend on the context. As I read through this thread though, the sense I get is that "chord semantics" are to be additional information optional added by the user, so that my fear of lilypond doing ad-hoc amateur musical analysis will not be happening (I hope not). > > Ultimately, giving a chord a name is "analysis" of music, it is not a part > > of > > music notation. > > Again, I must disagree: I included chord names in much of the score and piano > part of my most recent full-length concert drama [...], and both the conductor > and pianist were deeply appreciative of their presence in the places I chose > to include them. Yes, but that was your choice to _include_ chord information in _your_notation_. You felt that the conveying this information, would help the performers perform this music. You did not engage in analysis. But if a person or a program were to assign chord/harmony information to your score after you composed it, they would be engaging in analysis. > Even if you are correct, why should Lilypond be artificially limited to > pre-hoc > notation only? Why shouldn't we expand Lilypond's power to support and > encourage musical analysis? I would hate to see parts of lilypond break because of the addition of musical analysis. > > What you are suggesting is "naive" musical analysis which should not be a > > part of such a powerful notation program as lilypond. > > So having additional power in the form of expanded analysis functions would > somehow make Lilypond *less* powerful as a notation program? I'm not sure I > see > how that follows… If the analysis is going to be brute force added by the listener, I don't see a problem, except for adding a complexity to the program that does not have to do with notation. However, if the idea is for lilypond to do popular/amateur music analysis (calling every "a e g a" chord an a minor 7 chord regardless of contexts) that task/goal is going to have little meaning for most music. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user