Re: Chords in LilyPond

[Robert Schmaus]

Am 29.05.17 um 15:28 schrieb Carl Sorensen:
> I had not heard of quartic chords before reading this email (as I've
> mentioned before, I'm a music novice).  It was very interesting for me to
> study quartic chords.
>
> But in my web search and following links, I never found anything that
> approached a notation for quartic chords.  Their existence was discussed,
> but I found no quartic-based notation; it was all just the notes.  Do you
> have any source information that we could use to better understand quartic
> chord notation?

Hi Carl,

I have seen an arrangement of a 1953 Miles Davis recording called 
"Enigma" (written by JJ Johnson) which contains such chords.
I guess there is no established symbol for these chords, but in that 
arrangement they were denoted "p4" as in Ab(p4). The p4 stands for - in 
my assumption - "perfect 4ths".

Best,
Robert