u/elasticdog

I've found that many chord-notation references are either too high-level or try to catalog every historical variation without taking clear positions when practices differ. So I ended up writing a style guide that documents the choices and tradeoffs I settled on while building a music theory software project. I'm curious which decisions people agree with and which they'd make differently.

https://whatchord.earthmanmuons.com/articles/chord-symbols.html

Disclosure: I used AI as an editing and review aid while developing the article.