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Re: Defining new chord modifier
From: |
Carl Sorensen |
Subject: |
Re: Defining new chord modifier |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:42:02 -0600 |
Would you consider turning it into a snippet for the LSR, and labeling it
with the docs tag?
Thanks,
Carl
On 8/13/09 7:43 AM, "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)"
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Thank you much, I could not find in the doc about this possibility.
>
> Carl Sorensen wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/13/09 1:13 AM, "Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)"
>> <address@hidden> <mailto:address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to use quint-chords, that is, containing only root and fifth,
>>> like <c g'>
>>> I want to define a chord name for this, to let me use
>>> c:5 or c:five
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> c:5 won't work; c:5 gives a C major triad.
>>
>> I don't know how hard it would be to define a new modifier :five. I would
>> not be in favor of accepting such a modifier into the main code base.
>>
>> The proper modifier for creating it in LilyPond is c:5^3 (which is actually
>> shorter to type than c:five). One can also use c^3, which is even shorter,
>> but it has the implied 5 and so may not communicate well in the source code.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> and display C5 in the chord name staff.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> It requires a simple chord exception.
>>
>> This has been nicely discussed here (the rock term for what you call a
>> "quint-chord" is "power chord"):
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.general/14407
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Carl
>>
>>
>>
>