Mike Whitaker writes:
| > This means that there is only one true way to write
| > G minor, to wit Gm - Gmin may or may not work.
|
| This is, I think the philisophy several folk have agreed with in
| the recent discussion.
This does lead to one quirk that would probably confuse
lots of users: A key signature looks remarkably like a
chord, but "min" is allowed for the one and not the other.
Maybe, just to avoid this confusion, we should adopt the
general rule for both chords and modes that they may be
abbreviated to three characters, and "m" is a special case
that is a synonym for "min" and "minor".
One might make an argument that chords and modes are
different beast. But this isn't really true. The key of D
minor is called that because its tonic chord is a minor
chord, and similarly for major. This obviously doesn't
,arry much farther. But it's no coincidence that the same
terms are used for both, and a lot of musicians are likely
to be confused by why "min" sometimes works and sometimes
gets an error message.
I wonder if there are any programs now that can't handle a
"Gmin" chord?
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