Re: polychords: what's the current state-of-the-art?

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Valentin,

> Suppose we had a different way of specifying chords not as a bunch of notes, 
> but in a representation that preserves the theoretical meaning of such a 
> chord.

The GSoC work was working towards exactly that.

> This way we could have a transposable syntax to say e.g. des|c to specify Db 
> major over C major or even g|dis:m|cis:m or something and would be able to 
> quickly get the chord specification we actually want, instead of having to do 
> something like c:3.5.9-.11.13- or even something like this 
> cis,:m3.5.9.11.13.19-.21.23-.

We really need something like this.
Kieren.