app to find piano chords

2009-05-31 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, I'm wondering if there is an app who makes it able to find chord/finger settings for piano easily. I work on GNU/Linux. \r ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-31 Thread Tao Cumplido
The list on Dolmetsch isn't too bad but it's a little confusing in my opinion. I think it'd be better to categorize the ways in which a single chord note is affected (or a set of notes) rather than naming all variations for each chord. For example it lists three variations for a minor triad (m,

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-31 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Tao Cumplido wrote: The list on Dolmetsch isn't too bad but it's a little confusing in my opinion. I think it'd be better to categorize the ways in which a single chord note is affected (or a set of notes) rather than naming all variations for each chord. For example it lists three variations

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-31 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/30/09 10:55 PM, Brett Duncan bdd1...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Carl D. Sorensen wrote: I assume that there would still have to be some means of creating exceptions. If someone wants chords named mainly in the Real Book style, but with minors notated slightly differently ( Cm / Cmi / C- )

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-31 Thread Johannes Schöpfer
Hi, As I already said some time ago when I made my own chordnames functions, I still believe chordnames should be seperated from chords, or at least chords shouldn't produce chordnames since it'll never be clear. And the other way round there can also occur problems, i.e. with C7alt., how

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-31 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Johannes Schöpfer wrote: Hi, As I already said some time ago when I made my own chordnames functions, I still believe chordnames should be seperated from chords, or at least chords shouldn't produce chordnames since it'll never be clear. And the other way round there can also occur

Re: emacs lilypond-mode

2009-05-31 Thread Thomas
Hallo, thanks to everybody for the help...I now compile the .lytex file on the command line with lilypond-book (that works) and then use the resulting .tex file in emacs ... not perfect, but finally I can start working with latex/lilypond... BTW ... I found a way to participate in this

Re: emacs lilypond-mode

2009-05-31 Thread Thomas
PS somebody out there must know what error code 2 in the lilypond-context means ... I even searched the .el files, but no result or is this an emacs error? would be at least interesting, if not helpfull to find that out... cheers thomas ___

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-31 Thread Thomas
hi, just one idea to think about: if you read Werner Pöhlert's Basic Harmoy (a very thick volume) he explains that every move from chord to chord is a fifth (= = half-step), so if you want to produce consistent jazzchord names from given notes, the most logical think would be to analyse the

scheme function for transposition

2009-05-31 Thread Josiah Boothby
I'm confused trying to use scheme to create a function. I've tried several things, but the current function (dysfunction?) and application looks something like this: % code snippet \version 2.12.2 firstNotes = \relative c' { c4 d e f } first = #(define-music-function (parser location trans)

Re: Lilypond and Jazz chords

2009-05-31 Thread Carl D. Sorensen
On 5/31/09 7:34 AM, Johannes Schöpfer j...@schoepfer.info wrote: Hi, As I already said some time ago when I made my own chordnames functions, I still believe chordnames should be seperated from chords, or at least chords shouldn't produce chordnames since it'll never be clear. And the