Re: Feature request: German chord names

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Sonntag, 31. August 2008 schrieb Bertalan Fodor:
> I think in this way this is a bad practice and I wouldn't call it German
> tradition. The best traditional practice is to use small letter and the
> quality mark together: hm

The German tradition is really that capital letters indicate major, small 
letters mean minor mode. So if you see "Mass in C", it is in c major, if you 
see "Mass in c", it's c minor.
It's only natural that people, who grew up with that convention, also want to 
use it to denote chords. Wikipedia also says the following about major/minor 
chord naming (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkordsymbol):
- -) Usually, chords are notated as C and Cm
- -) To some extent it is also custom to notate minor chords with small letters

Cheers,
Reinhold

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