Re: Chords and what they mean

[Johan Vromans]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:02:06 +0200
David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> > On paper, we all write Am to designate an A-minor chord. However, in
> > LilyPond we write a:min.

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

True, although that was not what I intended to state. See below.

> > 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.

The point that I wanted to make was that you need to write chords
differently in LilyPond anyway, using colons and periods. So translating
c:sus into c:sus4 would hardly make sense.

OTOH, a full translation of Am into a:m (and so on) would be interesting.

-- Johan