Introducing chord names - GNU LilyPond
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#### 7.2.1 Introducing chord names

LilyPond has support for printing chord names. Chords may be entered in musical chord notation, i.e., `< .. >`, but they can also be entered by name. Internally, the chords are represented as a set of pitches, so they can be transposed

>          twoWays = \transpose c c' {
>            \chordmode {
>              c1 f:sus4 bes/f
>            }
>            <c e g>
>            <f bes c'>
>            <f bes d'>
>          }

>          << \new ChordNames \twoWays
>             \new Voice \twoWays >>

This example also shows that the chord printing routines do not try to be intelligent. The last chord (`f bes d`) is not interpreted as an inversion.

Note that the duration of chords must be specified outside the `<>`.

    <c e g>2

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