Re: Second attempt - Chord gis ais b dis - getting its proper name

[Brett Duncan]

Thies Albrecht wrote:
> Tomas Valusek schrieb:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm transcribing a piece where a chord mentioned in subject occurs. It's
> > minor chord with added second. I can't get the proper chord name in
> > Lilypond 2.10.33 on Windows. The best I can get is dis:6-:sus4 - but I
> > want something like gis:m:2. What now?
> As far as I know this is called a G#-minor-add9, not add2. Perhaps this 
> can give the clue. (I'm not sure whether this nomenclatur is still right 
> for minor chords, but at least I makes sense to me.)

Well, if the chord is structured from bottom to top as Tomas has given 
it (G# A# B D#), I'd call it an add2.

Tomas, to get the name to appear as you want, you will have to "roll 
your own" - this thread 
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-01/msg00698.html) 
covers what you need to do (but with different chords).

HTH,
Brett