Re: newbie

[Francisco Vila]

2009/5/27  <address@hidden>:
>>If by "internal representation of scores" you mean the structure of user
>>created input files, the best place to start is the tutorial.
>
> Actually I mean the parsed user input. Consider the following snippet from 
> the manual
>
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/d7/lily-ddc01e5d.ly
>
> lilypond will produce a ChoirStaff and four voices. What I am interested in 
> is to know how the notes are represented internally in order to find out if 
> its possible to derive a chord name. Let's take the first note in every voice
>
> Soprano: c''4
> Alto : e'4
> Tenor: g4
> Bass: c4
>
> derived Chord: c major (c - e - g)

The internal music representation is outlined in NR 6.2.2:

  
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Internal-music-representation

And you can view it as it is explained in NR 6.3.1:

  
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Displaying-music-expressions

What I'd do if I were you, it's to create a partcombine from the
staves you want to analyse and run \displayMusic on it.

-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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