Re: Feature request: German chord names
and I wouldn't call it German tradition. So you mean it is wider spread? Yes, for example Hungarian note and chord names usually follows the German and I often saw this in various scores. The best traditional practice is to use small letter and the quality mark together: hm What about giving people the possibility to use both forms? If the hm-form would be adopted, it almost demands that there first be a h-form. Yes, you are right. I just wanted to point out that because in practice using C and c can be hard to read, it is better to use C and cm in Lead Sheets. Bert ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Feature request: German chord names
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 31. August 2008 schrieb Bertalan Fodor: > I think in this way this is a bad practice and I wouldn't call it German > tradition. The best traditional practice is to use small letter and the > quality mark together: hm The German tradition is really that capital letters indicate major, small letters mean minor mode. So if you see "Mass in C", it is in c major, if you see "Mass in c", it's c minor. It's only natural that people, who grew up with that convention, also want to use it to denote chords. Wikipedia also says the following about major/minor chord naming (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkordsymbol): - -) Usually, chords are notated as C and Cm - -) To some extent it is also custom to notate minor chords with small letters Cheers, Reinhold - -- - -- Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/ * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIuu/gTqjEwhXvPN0RAqPXAJ4kHavpLa18ZcLFsB3w/aZOklT/YgCeLYZe KDqopoK8kgd99OJqOxUtWds= =3SVj -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Feature request: German chord names
Bertalan Fodor schrieb: I think in this way this is a bad practice Well, it is also not really logical/good practice to have the major be the main function (with no modifier) and the minor then with a modifier. It is always a bit difficult to explain people that their habits are bad and they should switch to something else. In general I would agree that there is much bad practice met around the world -- on this particular example I don't have any opinion. and I wouldn't call it German tradition. So you mean it is wider spread? The best traditional practice is to use small letter and the quality mark together: hm What about giving people the possibility to use both forms? If the hm-form would be adopted, it almost demands that there first be a h-form. Bert Till The users would like to be able to make a minor chord print the chord name as a small letter, and a big letter for the major chord, e.g. C maj would be C and C min would be c. This has some tradition in German Lead sheet music. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Feature request: German chord names
I think in this way this is a bad practice and I wouldn't call it German tradition. The best traditional practice is to use small letter and the quality mark together: hm Bert > The users would like to be able to make a minor chord print the chord > name as a small letter, and a big letter for the major chord, e.g. > C maj would be C and C min would be c. > This has some tradition in German Lead sheet music. ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Feature request: German chord names
Hi, there has been every once and a while questions about German chord names on the German lilypond forum. The users would like to be able to make a minor chord print the chord name as a small letter, and a big letter for the major chord, e.g. C maj would be C and C min would be c. This has some tradition in German Lead sheet music. There hasn't been yet a solution to make this easily working. Is there somebody volunteering or could it be added to the tracker? Greetings Till ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
