5.14.1 Chord names

LilyPond has support for 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 = \transpose c c' {
       \chordmode {
         c1 f:sus4 bes/f
       }
       <c e g>
       <f bes c'>
       <f bes d'>
     }
     
     << \context ChordNames \twoWays
        \context Voice \twoWays >>

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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