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Re: New feature: automatically invert chords or drop/rise chord notes (i
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David Kastrup |
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Re: New feature: automatically invert chords or drop/rise chord notes (issue 365840043 by address@hidden) |
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Sat, 02 Feb 2019 22:44:17 +0100 |
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Hans Åberg <address@hidden> writes:
>> On 2 Feb 2019, at 20:36, address@hidden wrote:
>>
>> On 2019/02/01 16:18:10, dak wrote:
>>> raising or lowering one chord note
>>> by an octave does not guarantee that it ends up at the far end of the
>> chord,
>>> like when using invertChords on a c:11 chord for the fifth inversion.
>>
>> Oh. Then this becomes a whole other can of worms; what should be the
>> correct inversion of an 11th chord?
>>
>> Should
>> <c' e' g' b' d'' f''>
>> become
>> <e' g' b' d'' f'' c'''> (as you seem to suggest)
>> or
>> <e' g' b' c'' d'' f''> (as the current code produces)?
>>
>> I’ll ask on the list as well.
>
> A music dictionary says an inversion of a chord is done by raising the
> lowest note to a higher octave.
The question was _which_ higher octave.
> Thus, the chord has as many inversions as pitch classes, excluding the
> root.
The cases discussed concerned were exactly those where raising to _some_
higher octave did not retain circular pitch order and thus the number of
inversions turned out _different_. Thus "Thus" is a non sequitur.
--
David Kastrup
Re: New feature: automatically invert chords or drop/rise chord notes (issue 365840043 by address@hidden), v . villenave, 2019/02/07