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I'm now translating the chord names but have to ask if Sixth(6) includes both Major Sixth and Minor Sixth or it only applies to the former?
For the others like 9th(9), 13th(13), 11th(11), I assumes they are all dominant chord and wonder if it's right?
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This is a good question. I do not think we have ever discussed this. In my personal opinion, I would say it is the major 6th (notes in C6: C, E, G, A). The Wikipedia article on the major 6th chord says "C6" or "CM6" would be the normal notation for the major form of this chord.
There should be a minor 6th (m6) form as well. It is an omission we may wish to correct in a future version. Fortunately, the chords, chord keys, and chord forms section of the song XML definition are only used for transposition and not for playback or validation. If you do not use the transposition feature, you can use any chord suffix that you need to describe the music.
It is a difficult problem to solve in a general form. Even mature, complex music software such as Finale struggles with this issue.
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For transposition I have tested that it's okay whatever the chord suffix I use, even for those names which are not existing. But for searching, I was unable to find m6, augmented chord in the name of 'aug' instead of '+'.
Sometimes the searching is not stable. Searching seems to have done without locating the position of the chord and at the other times the program was waiting. Nevertheless I'm not sure for the issue because I'm using Fedora 24 x86_64 (at where I don't have a rpm package for OpenSong), I can only test with the Windows version via Wine.
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Thank you! I have added the translation to the source code repository for the next release, or users can download the file from your link and replace the old file it in the OpenSong Languages folder.
This is a good question. I do not think we have ever discussed this. In my personal opinion, I would say it is the major 6th (notes in C6: C, E, G, A). The Wikipedia article on the major 6th chord says "C6" or "CM6" would be the normal notation for the major form of this chord.
There should be a minor 6th (m6) form as well. It is an omission we may wish to correct in a future version. Fortunately, the chords, chord keys, and chord forms section of the song XML definition are only used for transposition and not for playback or validation. If you do not use the transposition feature, you can use any chord suffix that you need to describe the music.
It is a difficult problem to solve in a general form. Even mature, complex music software such as Finale struggles with this issue.
For transposition I have tested that it's okay whatever the chord suffix I use, even for those names which are not existing. But for searching, I was unable to find m6, augmented chord in the name of 'aug' instead of '+'.
Sometimes the searching is not stable. Searching seems to have done without locating the position of the chord and at the other times the program was waiting. Nevertheless I'm not sure for the issue because I'm using Fedora 24 x86_64 (at where I don't have a rpm package for OpenSong), I can only test with the Windows version via Wine.