Chord Identifier Plugin for Musescore

This is a version of the Chord Identifer plugin ported to MuseScore 3. All credits for the plugin itself go to its original authors.

Chord Identifier Plugin for Musescore

• 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.

Example 1 :Chord

 

 

Example 2 :Roma chord display mode

 

 

Example 3 : New chord-only staff

 

 

HOW-TO:

1.Download

• DOWNLOAD the last release.
• Put the chordIdentifier.qml in the MuseScore/plugins folder (basically "C:\Program Files (x86)\MuseScore 2\plugins" in Windows).
• 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 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.

More info: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/plugins

Acknowledgment:

I started this plugin as an improvement of:

https://github.com/rousselmanu/msc_plugins plugin by rousselmanu

https://github.com/andresn/standard-notation-experiments/tree/master/MuseScore/plugins/findharmonies

http://musescore.org/en/project/findharmony by Merte

https://github.com/berteh/musescore-chordsToNotes/ - Jon Ensminger (AddNoteNameNoteHeads v. 1.2 plugin)

Thank you :-)

Comments and feedbacks are welcome!
Ke Xu
Mail: [email protected]