Well, the latter.  But if you search for "jazz chords" you find a pretty
good function.  I haven't tried it, but I may soon as I have wanted to use
LilyPond for transcribing jazz music and lead sheets.


Knute Snortum
(via Gmail)


On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:47 AM, rif <r...@mit.edu> wrote:

> Are you suggesting that the file pop-chords.ly can be obtained from the
> snippets repository?  If so, I don't yet see how.  Or are you just
> suggesting that the snippets repository contains many useful and
> interesting examples, in which case I agree completely?
>
> rif
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/
>>
>> Also, if the LSR search isn't working the way you want:
>>
>> in Google: "site:lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/"
>>
>>
>> Knute Snortum
>> (via Gmail)
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 10, 2014, at 9:11 AM, rif <r...@mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Apparently I can get just say f:7.9- to get an F7b9.  Hooray!  Still
>>> wondering if there's a canonical place for pop-chords.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 7:06 AM, rif <r...@mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I see many references to this on the mailing list, but are these files
>>>> anywhere standard?  I grabbed an old jazz-chords.ly from some mailing
>>>> list message, but then it didn't work when I included it, and it had no
>>>> version number so I couldn't figure out how to convert it.
>>>>
>>>> What I actually want to do: single line melodies with chord symbols.
>>>>  I'm using the "Simple lead sheet" from
>>>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/snippets/chords as an
>>>> example, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do things like
>>>> get an F7b9 symbol in there.  Most of the "chords" examples I find lying
>>>> around seem to be built around the idea that you want to show a bunch of
>>>> pitches of a chord and then get the name automatically?  What am I missing?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The Lilypond Snippet Repository (a.k.a LSR) is a very helpful place to
>>> look for this sort of thing.  I don't have the URL handy on my iPad but the
>>> name ought to be enough to help you find it via a web search.
>>>
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