Re: Canonical[ish] place to get pop-chords.ly or jazz-chords.ly? Also, chords advice?

[Jim Long]

In the interest of putting this thread out of its misery, the
canonical place to find jazz-chords.ily is:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-11/msg00285.html

The community is in debt to Robert Schmaus for his fine work.

Jim



On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 02:00:02PM -0700, rif wrote:
> Actually, I'm still not really finding what I want in the snippets
> repository.  I don't see how I can [for instance] get a minor 7th chord
> symbol.  I just want to say "The chord here is F-7" [or Eb-6/9], without
> having to write out all the notes of the chord, which is what seems to
> happen in the snippets examples...
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Knute Snortum <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Well, the latter.  But if you search for "jazz chords" you find a pretty
> > good function.  I haven't tried it, but I may soon as I have wanted to use
> > LilyPond for transcribing jazz music and lead sheets.
> >
> >
> > Knute Snortum
> > (via Gmail)
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:47 AM, rif <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Are you suggesting that the file pop-chords.ly can be obtained from the
> >> snippets repository?  If so, I don't yet see how.  Or are you just
> >> suggesting that the snippets repository contains many useful and
> >> interesting examples, in which case I agree completely?
> >>
> >> rif
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Knute Snortum <address@hidden>wrote:
> >>
> >>> lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/
> >>>
> >>> Also, if the LSR search isn't working the way you want:
> >>>
> >>> in Google: "site:lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Knute Snortum
> >>> (via Gmail)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Tim McNamara <address@hidden>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On May 10, 2014, at 9:11 AM, rif <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Apparently I can get just say f:7.9- to get an F7b9.  Hooray!  Still
> >>>> wondering if there's a canonical place for pop-chords.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:06 AM, rif <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I see many references to this on the mailing list, but are these files
> >>>>> anywhere standard?  I grabbed an old jazz-chords.ly from some mailing
> >>>>> list message, but then it didn't work when I included it, and it had no
> >>>>> version number so I couldn't figure out how to convert it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What I actually want to do: single line melodies with chord symbols.
> >>>>>  I'm using the "Simple lead sheet" from
> >>>>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/chords as an
> >>>>> example, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do things 
> >>>>> like
> >>>>> get an F7b9 symbol in there.  Most of the "chords" examples I find lying
> >>>>> around seem to be built around the idea that you want to show a bunch of
> >>>>> pitches of a chord and then get the name automatically?  What am I 
> >>>>> missing?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The Lilypond Snippet Repository (a.k.a LSR) is a very helpful place to
> >>>> look for this sort of thing.  I don't have the URL handy on my iPad but 
> >>>> the
> >>>> name ought to be enough to help you find it via a web search.
> >>>>
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