Hello Luca, > Does anyone know why "c:4" in chordmode renders "C4 sus4 3", seems... > unuseful > Printing the notes renders "<c e f>" which is also kinda weird: a c:4 seems > like should either render "<c f g>" or "<c e g f>" (or f', maybe) but > omitting the fifth and leaving in a major third seems just odd. (Like, on a > _minor_ third that'd be easier to make sense of, being an inversion of a > dominant with an omitted third, I can see that, not an "every day" chord, > but maybe) > One way or the other, why is the namer putting in the 4th, then pulling out > the third and adding the fourth, then putting in a third again?
If you want `<c f g>` you should do `c:sus4`. `c4` is asking Lilypond to construct a chord with to top note being to 4, so it uses root, third and fourth (and stops there, for else the top note would not be the 4th. If you want c major with the f as tension then you would rather take that f as 11th (as you say, f' maybe) and either do `c:11` (which is going to also add minor 7th and the 9th) or (if you don’t want that) `c:3.5.11` (note that here you have to build the whole chord from the third, as `c:5` as an exception produces an open fifth, and sadly there is no “major” modifier like with minor, as major is default (and c:.11 is not valid)). Cheers, Tina
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