Hi,
Am , schrieb Johan Vromans:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:33:52 +0100
Jan Kohnert <[email protected]> wrote:
Version 2 whould probably be read more quickly and correct by Jazz
musicians, version 1 is more "correct" for a non-expert,
I doubt this. Even a non-expert needs to know a few basic things. E.g.,
C is
a major triad. Cm is minor triad. 7 is a dominant 7th. 9 implies 7. 11
implies 7 and 9. Sus4 implies no 3rd. That's about it.
This is why I put 'probably' in the sentence above. I can only speak for
myself an the things I read in the past. I'd personally prefer version
2; but I also saw version 1, and there's probably more in the wild. :) I
totally agree basic knowledge is needed, but I doubt, a
non-(jazz)-expert knows that 13 implies the 7th and the 9th, but not the
11th, a.s.o.; so there _might_ be reasons for putting them into the
printout. And this is why I thought about different standard layouts for
different intended readers; again: this is just a thought, nothing more,
since I personally like the default Lily-style (except for the missing
"add" in some rare cases).
A bottom line for me is that different combinations of notes should not
collapse into the same chord symbol, and that established conventions
should be followed as much as possible.
The thing is: Some chords do in the default Lily-notation. That's the
point in this whole issue, and that is why a bug has been opened in the
tracker (I posted the link earlier in the thread). The (new; read as:
since v2.16) default makes <c e g d> and <c e g b d> printed the same
way as "C9", and that simply is wrong in my optinion, since the two
chords are used in completly different cicumstances and the intention of
the composer/arranger to use the one or the other should be readable by
the musician in the score (and I gues, we already agree in this point).
Best regards, Jan
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