https://wiki.lilypond.community/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Abbreviating_bass_note_changes 2026-05-10T09:44:00Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.44.2 https://wiki.lilypond.community/index.php?title=Abbreviating_bass_note_changes&diff=6363&oldid=prev 2026-02-20T06:55:24Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 06:55, 20 February 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A common practice in lead sheets is to abbreviate chord changes when only the bass note is changed. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s</del>, &lt;code&gt;Cmaj7<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Cmaj7/B&lt;/code&gt; would be written as &lt;code&gt;Cmaj7<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>/B&lt;/code&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, for example</del>. There is no simple way to do this in LilyPond, but it is possible to use a whiteout hack <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">like </del>[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=309 snippet #309</del>] to accomplish the desired effect.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A common practice in lead sheets is to abbreviate chord changes when only the bass note is changed. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For example</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the sequence </ins>&lt;code&gt;Cmaj7 Cmaj7/B&lt;/code&gt; would be written as &lt;code&gt;Cmaj7 /B&lt;/code&gt; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">instead</ins>. There is no simple way to do this in LilyPond, but it is possible to use a whiteout hack <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as shown in snippet </ins>[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[Inserting a \markup when using chordmode]</ins>] to accomplish the desired effect.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;lilypond version=&quot;2.24&quot;&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;lilypond version=&quot;2.24&quot;&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=776</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>% Maybe I&#039;ll write a Scheme function for this, when I learn how...</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>% Maybe I&#039;ll write a Scheme function for this, when I learn how...</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

Lemzwerg https://wiki.lilypond.community/index.php?title=Abbreviating_bass_note_changes&diff=4643&oldid=prev 2025-11-21T23:28:50Z

<p>New category</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:28, 21 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l30">Line 30:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 30:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Contemporary notation]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Contemporary notation]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Chords]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Chords]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Workaround]][[Category:Snippet]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Workaround]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Snippet]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Lemzwerg https://wiki.lilypond.community/index.php?title=Abbreviating_bass_note_changes&diff=3087&oldid=prev 2025-11-21T22:46:00Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:46, 21 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l30">Line 30:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 30:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Contemporary notation]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Contemporary notation]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Chords]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Chords]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Workaround]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Workaround<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]][[Category:Snippet</ins>]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Lemzwerg https://wiki.lilypond.community/index.php?title=Abbreviating_bass_note_changes&diff=2140&oldid=prev 2025-11-16T18:45:17Z

<p>Replace version=&quot;2.24.0&quot; with version=&quot;2.24&quot; now that the LilyWiki extension supports auto-selecting the latest release in a stable series</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:45, 16 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A common practice in lead sheets is to abbreviate chord changes when only the bass note is changed. s, &lt;code&gt;Cmaj7, Cmaj7/B&lt;/code&gt; would be written as &lt;code&gt;Cmaj7, /B&lt;/code&gt;, for example. There is no simple way to do this in LilyPond, but it is possible to use a whiteout hack like [http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=309 snippet #309] to accomplish the desired effect.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A common practice in lead sheets is to abbreviate chord changes when only the bass note is changed. s, &lt;code&gt;Cmaj7, Cmaj7/B&lt;/code&gt; would be written as &lt;code&gt;Cmaj7, /B&lt;/code&gt;, for example. There is no simple way to do this in LilyPond, but it is possible to use a whiteout hack like [http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=309 snippet #309] to accomplish the desired effect.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;lilypond version="2.24<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.0</del>"&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;lilypond version="2.24"&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=776</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>%% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=776</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

Jean Abou Samra https://wiki.lilypond.community/index.php?title=Abbreviating_bass_note_changes&diff=727&oldid=prev 2025-10-26T22:46:58Z

<p>Import snippet from LSR</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A common practice in lead sheets is to abbreviate chord changes when only the bass note is changed. s, &lt;code&gt;Cmaj7, Cmaj7/B&lt;/code&gt; would be written as &lt;code&gt;Cmaj7, /B&lt;/code&gt;, for example. There is no simple way to do this in LilyPond, but it is possible to use a whiteout hack like [http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=309 snippet #309] to accomplish the desired effect.<br /> <br /> &lt;lilypond version=&quot;2.24.0&quot;&gt;<br /> %% http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=776<br /> <br /> % Maybe I&#039;ll write a Scheme function for this, when I learn how...<br /> <br /> slashBMusic = {<br /> &lt;c e g&gt;1-\markup { \hspace #-2 \whiteout &quot;/B&quot; }<br /> }<br /> slashB = #(sequential-music-to-chord-exceptions slashBMusic #t)<br /> <br /> slashAMusic = {<br /> &lt;c e g&gt;1-\markup { \hspace #-2 \whiteout &quot;/A&quot; }<br /> }<br /> slashA = #(sequential-music-to-chord-exceptions slashAMusic #t)<br /> <br /> \score { &lt;&lt;<br /> \new ChordNames \chordmode {<br /> c1:maj7 |<br /> \set chordNameExceptions = #slashB c |<br /> \set chordNameExceptions = #slashA c |<br /> }<br /> \new Staff \relative c&#039;&#039; {<br /> c4 c c c | c c c c | c c c c |<br /> }<br /> &gt;&gt; }<br /> &lt;/lilypond&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category:Contemporary notation]]<br /> [[Category:Chords]]<br /> [[Category:Workaround]]</div>

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