In the interest of putting this thread out of its misery, the canonical place to find jazz-chords.ily is:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2011-11/msg00285.html The community is in debt to Robert Schmaus for his fine work. Jim On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 02:00:02PM -0700, rif wrote: > Actually, I'm still not really finding what I want in the snippets > repository. I don't see how I can [for instance] get a minor 7th chord > symbol. I just want to say "The chord here is F-7" [or Eb-6/9], without > having to write out all the notes of the chord, which is what seems to > happen in the snippets examples... > > > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Knute Snortum <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>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 <[email protected]>wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On May 10, 2014, at 9:11 AM, rif <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> lilypond-user mailing list > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> lilypond-user mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > >>> > >>> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
