Chord Identifier (Musescore 2.3)

• Shows chords used in classical music: triads (major, minor, diminished) and seventh chords (MM7, m7, Mm7, dim7).
• Identify chords and put chords symbol between treble staff and bass staff.
• Identify chord by measure, you can also define how many chords in one measure.

HOW-TO:

1. Download

• Download chordIdentifier.qml

• Put the chordIdentifier.qml in the MuseScore/plugins folder
  (basically "%HOMEPATH%\Documents\MuseScore2\Plugins" in Windows
  for Mac or Linux ,please see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/plugins#installation)

• Restart MuseScore.

• Go to menu "Plugins"→"Plugin Manager" , Enable the plugin "chord Identifer" (you can also associate a shortcut). then click "OK"

2. Run plugin.
   Go to menu Plugins→Chords→Chord Identifier, then the plugin should dock on bottom-left of Musescore UI.
   Then set parameters and click "OK"

Parameters:

• Chord Per Measure: you need to define how many chords per measure for your specific score.

• Chord in: notes in your choice staff (Grand/treble/all) will be used for chord identification. Treble+ grand mode will ignore the highest note(melody)

• Symbol :
  Normal chord ( C F7 Gm )
  Roman Chord level ( Ⅳ)
  Normal+Roman (C/I)

• Bass: it will figure out a bass note if bass note is not a chord root note, such as (C/G )

• Highlight chord notes: chord notes display on a different color.

• Create New Chord Score: create a new chord-only score

3. Tips

• you can try to set different parameters to get a different result, Ctr+Z can undo.
• Default it is for the whole score if you don't select any measure.it also works on a selected portion, such as several measures.it is useful for a complicated score, such as 4/4 ->3/4 beat changing in a staff.
• you can adjust chord symbols manually if think it is not right or not accuracy.
• if the gap is too narrow between treble staff and bass staff, you can change it, Muscore→Style→General→Page→Grand staff distance.

Comments and feedbacks are welcome!
Ke Xu
Mail: yindht@gmail.com