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Chord names

LilyPond has support for both printing chord names. Chords may be entered in musical chord notation, i.e. < .. >, but they can also be entered by name. Internally, the chords are represented as a set of pitches, so they can be transposed:

     twoWays = \notes \transpose c c' {
       \chords {
         c1 f:sus4 bes/f
       }
       <c e g>
       <f bes c'>
       <f bes d'>
       }
     
     \score {
        << \context ChordNames \twoWays
          \context Voice \twoWays >> }
     

[picture of music]

This example also shows that the chord printing routines do not try to be intelligent. The last chord (f bes d) is not interpreted as an inversion.


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