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Better Jazz Chord Symbols
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Robert Schmaus |
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Better Jazz Chord Symbols |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:40:12 +0100 |
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Dear Everyone,
based on the Lilypond file "pop-chords.ly", I've created a counterpart
for typsetting of jazz sheet music. It is accordingly called
"jazz-chords.ily" and all you need to do is include it in your ly source
file to get more jazz-like chordnames.
Some remarks about it:
1. Obviously, it is not complete. Whenever you play jazz music, you will
come across yet *another* chord that you haven't seen before. The chords
included are the most common ones plus several that I've come across
since I use Lilypond. Anyway, there are loads of 11 and 13 chords that
are not yet defined.
2. Also, there are lots of personal preferences in how to write jazz
chords. Starting with basics as "mi", "m", "min" or "-" for the minor
mode - all of them are out there and all of them are correct. Same goes
for the major symbol or "minor7b5" chords, where to put tensions in
brackets, and so on.
I've made jazz-chords according to my own preferences - change it to
match your own, if yours are different.
3. If you define symbols for chords which are not yet included, please
send them back to me, so I can expand jazz-chords.ily and release a new
version of it in time. (Or should it go into the snippets repository
anyway?)
The "normal" chords (without stacked tensions in a bracket) are easy to
make.
As of now, I haven't managed to create a markup command that produces
those chords with two stacked tensions in a bracket. If you'd like to
create a chord with stacked tensions, use one of the existing ones as
template. Of course, changes of preferences must be made in all of these
individually, at least until I have time figure out the command-problem.
Attached to this mal, you'll find the files
"jazz-chords.ily" containing the jazz chords definitions
"jazz-test.ly" - check, how each chord is called
"jazz-text.pdf" - how the output should look like
Hope this is useful to some of you ...
Best,
Robert
jazz-chords.ily
Description: Text document
jazz-test.ly
Description: Text document
jazz-test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
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