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Chords 167
Chords
These snippets illustrate Section “Chord notation” in Notation Reference.
Adding a figured bass above or below the notes
When writing a figured bass, here’s a way to specify if you want your figures to be placed
above or below the bass notes, by defining the BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction
property (exclusively in a Staff context). Choices are #UP (or #1), #CENTER (or #0) and #DOWN
(or #-1).
As you can see here, this property can be changed as many times as you wish. Use \once
\override if you don’t want the tweak to apply to the whole score.
bass = {
\clef bass
g4 b, c d
e d8 c d2
}
continuo = \figuremode {
4 8
\once \override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #CENTER
8 4
\override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #UP
4
\set Staff.useBassFigureExtenders = ##t
\override Staff.BassFigureAlignmentPositioning #'direction = #DOWN
4. 8 4
}
\score {
>
}
6
5
6
4
Adding bar lines to ChordNames context
To add bar line indications in the ChordNames context, add the Bar_engraver.
\new ChordNames \with {
\override BarLine #'bar-size = #4
\consists "Bar_engraver"
}
\chordmode {
f1:maj7 f:7 bes:7
}