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Chords

LilyPond has support for both entering and printing chords. Chords are characterized by a set of pitches. They are internally stored as simultaneous music expressions. This means you can enter chords by name and print them as note head, enter them as notes and print them as chord names, or (the most common case) enter them by name, and print them as name.

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

\score {
   < \context ChordNames \twoWays
     \context Voice \twoWays > }

Note that this example also shows that the chord printing routines do not attempt to be intelligent. If you enter f bes d, it does not interpret this as an inversion.

• Chords mode:
• Printing named chords:

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