Re: Chords and what they mean

[David Kastrup]

Johan Vromans <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 23:52:14 +0200
> address@hidden wrote:
>
>> You are certainly completely right. The transformation is quite simple, 
>> so a script in perl or awk or any similar program can easily solve the 
>> task. But can you use it in an integrated environment, like 
>> Frescobaldi-LilyPond, which I have come to appreciate a lot.
>
> Sure, no problem. I my workflow the lilypond command that Frescobaldi uses
> is a script that does some things before passing control to the 'real'
> lilypond program.
>
> But I could ask a different question.
>
> On paper, we all write Am to designate an A-minor chord. However, in
> LilyPond we write a:min.

We can but don't need to.

> I haven't heard much complaints about this lately.

Probably because it is usually written as a:m instead.  "m" and "min"
are aliases.

> So what is the big deal to write c:sus4 when you want to designate
> your flavour of Csus?

Well, your premise is faulty, so it's not really relevant for the c:sus
interpretation.

-- 
David Kastrup