Chord Names using MuseScore
Posted May 22nd, 2010 by Musicdad
I have come upon complex chord names in many jazz songs. I have been using MuseScore as my notation software. How do I enter a complex chord so when it is uploaded as XML the chord will be recognized in Wiki. Example: F7(b9#5). This chord is recognized as text and not a chord when uploaded. Is there a way to write this chord name so it is recognized as a chord. Music Dad
F7(b9#5) is not recognized
F7(b9#5) is not recognized as a chordname by MuseScore and so it's not exported in the MusicXML as a chordname. Wikifonia tries to parse the text to a chordname but doesn't work for this particular one.
F7(b9#5) is not recognized
I'm very new to MuseScore but noticed that in MuseScore (I'm using 0.9.5) under: Style...Edit Style... Chordnames..., there's a "Chord description file" listed. The default is "chords.xml" and it's in the "Program Files\MuseScore 0.9\styles" directory. The only other XML file in that directory is "jazzchords.xml". Guessing at the meaning of the various tags, I added the following to the end of the file (just before the final "[/museScore]" tag):
[chord id="208"]
[name]7(b9#5)[/name]
[xml]augmented-7th-flated-9th[/xml]
[voicing]C Db E G# Bb[/voicing]
[render]7(b9#5)[/render]
[/chord]
Note that I used square brackets in this note ( [ ] ) instead of angled brackets ( < > ) in order that these tags could be displayable here (and not interpreted as HTML).
Now, the chord seems to be recognized by MuseScore in that under "Harmony Properties...", the chord extension is a new entry in the pull-down menu beside the "other" button. This might fix the problem (at least for this particular chord). Has anyone else created a more complete Chord Description File?
burrmann
C7(b9#5)
This chord normally is written C7+(b9) or Caug7(b9), either of which should translate properly. Writing C(#5) is like writing Cseventh - unnecessarily convoluted.