Major chord sounds like a triad
There are several ways to denote a C major chord:
Cmaj7 (Real Book ed. 5, Library of Musicians)
CMA7 (New Real Book, Hal Leonard Real Jazz Standards)
CM7 (Jazz Fake Book)
C∆7 (Great Gig Book or Blue Book)
C∆ (Colorado Cook Book, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Play Along)
These all should sound like a major chord with the natural 7. Musescore does this correctly, except for the last one, which I happen to prefer as a Jazz musician. The last one sounds like a triad in my Musescore, which is incorrect, in my opinion. (I'm using Musescore 3). Do you agree? Can I change that somewhere in the program?
Comments
Option 1: https://musescore.org/en/project/replace-chord-symbols
Option 2: As jazz musician you may like the attached plugin that gives you voicings rather than plain chords. Copy a lead sheet to a piano score and run the plugin. It uses ‘my’ (Mark Levine) style of chord symbols, e.g. C for CMaj
See https://musescore.org/en/node/345847 for discussion on this.
See https://musescore.org/en/project/satb-style-lead-sheet-harmonizer for a list of supported chord symbols.
WriteHarmonyVoicings4.qml