Standardized chord symbol notationCarl Brandt
Standardized chord symbol notation
by Carl Brandt · first published 1976
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An attempt to create a logical and uniform method of naming musical chords in order to reduce or eliminate ambiguity.
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…https://github.com/no-chris/chord-symbol for many years with much success in my own iReal Pro to MusicXML converter https://github.com/infojunkie/ireal-musicxml. The author mentions that their source is "Standardized Chord Symbol Notation: A Uniform System for the Music Profession" by Carl Brandt and Clinton Roemer, published in 1976.
on “How Chordcat works – a chord naming algorithm” ↗The lack of agreement on how to spell chord symbols is a genuine problem. Brandt and Roemer's 1976 Standardized Chord Symbol Notation provides a reasonable standard, which was adopted by Sher Music in their "New Real" line of books, but it's not quite the same as the style chosen by the original Real Book authors that was mostly kept…
on “The Real Book (2021)” ↗