Thanks, Amelie!


> the chords are badly formulated in that all notes are in the same
> octave.

Well, yes, but ...

> That's not a chord, that's a cluster. A few notes should go up an
> octave to make it make sense.

... the customer is always right.  :-)

> <c e g d' f'> should, according to nomenclature, be named "C add9
> add11", but is a poorly-formed chord in that it contains a minor 9th
> between the e and the f'. These minor 9ths are usually resolved by
> inversion to a major 7th, yielding <c f g d' e'>, which should be
> named "C sus4 add9 add10".
> 
> <c e g d'> is properly called "C add9".

LilyPond does that.  It's the border cases I'm worrying about.


    Werner

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