One more point: there’s also ‘pedal’ in MusicXML:

      <harmony>
        <root>
          <root-step>C</root-step>
        </root>
        <kind>pedal</kind>
      </harmony>

Is that just equivalent to having a usual pedal?

JM

> Le 13 sept. 2017 à 11:09, Menu Jacques <imj-...@bluewin.ch> a écrit :
> 
> Hello Mike,
> 
> Excellent, thanks!
> 
> JM
> 
>> Le 13 sept. 2017 à 10:27, Mike Solomon <m...@mikesolomon.org 
>> <mailto: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

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