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Re: Chords and what they mean
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Chords and what they mean |
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Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:38:07 +0200 |
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Johan Vromans <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
I think it is not an outlandish expectation, once you see how a:maj and
a:dim and a:min work, to have c:sus turn out a recognizable suspended
chord rather than a power chord (which is anything but a suspended
chord). It's not hard to learn c:sus4 for sure. But anything that
works according to naive expectations without causing other problems
leaves more time to learn more important things.
> OTOH, a full translation of Am into a:m (and so on) would be interesting.
That's not really much of an option because it's far outside of the
lexical entities otherwise composing LilyPond input.
--
David Kastrup
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