Re: German (?) notation

[Thomas Willhalm]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 08:53:10AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Rune Zedeler wrote:
> 
> RZ>> 2. What I also know from school and many songs is a method to notate
> RZ>> chords: use "C" for "c major" and "c" for "c minor". Is it possible to
> RZ>> let LilyPond use this notation? (In the output, not in the input;
> RZ>> "a:min" is fine for me.)
> RZ>
> RZ>This is really bad habbit, and a faulty heritance from tonic scale
> RZ>notation, where (C means C-major scale, c means C-minor scale).
> RZ>I have currently no idea of how to do this.
> RZ>How do you want the accidentals typeset? I assume # and b on the major
> RZ>chords, "is" / "es" on minor chords. How do you want alterations? I
> RZ>assume C7 = C7, c7 = Cm7
> 
> Well, that's a matter of taste and in fact many books and other sources
> here use exactly that notation. I asked for this a year ago, but ...
> As for accidentals most books I know of use 'Fis' or 'fis', but
> occasionally you see also # and b.

Yes, I would also prefer 'Fis' and 'fis', although I agree that the whole
thing it is a matter of taste. I don't know where this notation comes 
from, but I prefer 'f' over 'Fm', because it's shorter, and 'Fis' over
'F#', because it looks somewhat "cleaner". 

Thomas

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