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Chords

LilyPond has support for both entering and printing chords.

     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. If you enter f bes d, it does not interpret this as an inversion.

As you can see chords really are a set of pitches. They are internally stored as simultaneous music expressions. This means you can enter chords by name and print them as notes, enter them as notes and print them as chord names, or (the most common case) enter them by name, and print them as name.

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