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Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?
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Carl Sorensen |
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Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode? |
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Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:51:59 -0600 |
On 4/29/10 2:42 PM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:55:13AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote:
>> But we'll need to be sure it handles things like
>>
>> c\chord #'(1 3- 5-)
>
> Hmm. Might we need
> c\chord #'(1 3++ 7--)
> ? I'm not prepared to claim that there's no theory of chords that
> includes doubly-augmented intervals relative to the base note.
There is at least one common chord that uses doubly altered steps: the dim7
chord, which uses a double-flatted 7th., along with a minor thrd and a
diminished fifth. So yes, we do need to allow at least --. I don't think
we need to go more than two deep on the modifiers, do we?
>
>> We could even do bass notes
>>
>> c\chord #'(4 1 3 5)
>
> I'm not entirely comfortable about have 4 1.
I'm totally comfortable with #'(4 1 3 5). I can easily parse that so that
steps that come before 1 in the list are an octave down from the current
pitch.
> OTOH, I'm not overly
> eager to have things like
> c\chord #'(-4 1 3- 5-)
>
> An alternate that makes sense to me would be
> c\chord #'(-4 1 3es 5es)
> but then we're dragging language-specific definitions into this
> construct, which would be bad.
I think -4 is confusing, because it sounds like it is 4 steps *below* the
root, instead of step 4 an octave lower.
I'd prefer, if we need to do something, to do
#'(4, 1 3 5), i.e. use the octave indicators we already have.
Thanks,
Carl
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, (continued)
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, David Kastrup, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Karl Hammar, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Graham Percival, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Werner LEMBERG, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Carl Sorensen, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Werner LEMBERG, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, David Kastrup, 2010/04/29
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- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Graham Percival, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?,
Carl Sorensen <=
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Graham Percival, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Carl Sorensen, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, David Kastrup, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Graham Percival, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Kieren MacMillan, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Graham Percival, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Carl Sorensen, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Karl Hammar, 2010/04/30
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, David Kastrup, 2010/04/29
- Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?, Carl Sorensen, 2010/04/29