chord-dictionary

@tonaljs/chord-dictionary

A dictionary of musical chords.

Usage

import { chordType } from "@tonaljs/chord-dictionary";
// or
const { chordType } = require("@tonaljs/chord-dictionary");

API

chordType(type: string) => ChordType

Given a chord type name, return a ChordType object with the following properties:

• name: the chord type name
• aliases: a list of alternative names
• quality: Major | Minor | Augmented | Diminished | Unknown
• num: the pcset number
• chroma: the pcset chroma
• length: the number of notes
• intervals: the interval list

Example:

chordType("major"); // =>
// {
//   name: "major",
//   aliases: ["M", ""],
//   quality: "Major",
//   intervals: ["1P", "3M", "5P"],
//   num: 2192,
//   chroma: "100010010000",
//   length: 3
// });

entries() => ChordType[]

Return a list of all available chord types

FAQ

How do I get all triad chord names?

entries()
  .filter(type => type.intervals.length === 3)
  .map(n => name);

How do I know if a collection of notes is a known chord?

A poor's man version of chord detection (to be a more reliable chord detection, at least you have to check rotations of the notes)

import { pcset } from "@tonaljs/pcset";

const notes = ["C4", "f#3", ...]
chordType(pcset(notes).chroma).name