Hello Mike,

Excellent, thanks!

JM

> Le 13 sept. 2017 à 10:27, Mike Solomon <m...@mikesolomon.org> a écrit :
> 
> hm, my answer is a bit out of lilypond scope, but if I understand your 
> question correctly, you want to understand what these chords are?
> 
> they are three different pre-dominant chords that are taught to American 
> undergrads in a sophomore theory course.
> 
> in E major:
> Italian = C E A#
> French = C E F# A#
> German = C E G A#
> Tristan = C D# F# A#
> 
> in all of them, the C and A# in theory want to fan out to B (the dominant).  
> This is, of course, in theory - Wagner’s use of the Tristan chord, which he 
> clearly named his opera after, has the A# moving down to A, or the 7th of the 
> dominant (I’m transposing to fit w/ the example above).  Wagner obviously did 
> not pay much attention during his sophomore music theory course…
> 
> ~Mike
> On 13 September 2017 at 11.20.51, Menu Jacques (imj-...@bluewin.ch 
> <mailto:imj-...@bluewin.ch>) wrote:
> 
>> Hello folks,
>> 
>> MusicXML supports neapolitan, italian, german, french and tristan chords, 
>> i.e.:
>> 
>> <harmony>
>> <root>
>> <root-step>C</root-step>
>> </root>
>> <kind>Neapolitan</kind>
>> </harmony>
>> 
>> I’ve found information about neapolitan, but nothing about the others.
>> 
>> What is the structure of those?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> JM
>> 
>> 
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