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Some tunes have parenthesized notes at the end, and some just have the turnaround chords in the last few measures. Others have explicit first/second endings.

I think the explicit alternate ending for the first time (turnaround) and the last time (end) is much cleaner. I propose that all tunes that include turnarounds should be notated that way.

If you agree, I would be willing to work on cleaning up those tunes that don't yet fulfil that requirement.

But not all tunes that have turnarounds also have explicit endings. How would you fix that?

The ending would just have the final note and the tonic chord held for the proper number of measures. I assume that's what the implied ending is.

ok cool. One issue I had with all of this is that some real/fake books note the turnaround chords with parenthesis and I couldn't find a way to make lilypond put the chords in parenthesis. It's nice to see the turnaround chords in parenthesis since you know it's turn around time and know you can repeat this when improvising as much as you want...

Do you know of a way of making lilypond put parenthesis on a bunch of chords, or single chords?

I don't know how to add parentheses around chord names. However, in my eyes, that parenthesis notation is just a shorthand for a second ending. i.e: "For the first ending play the notes/chords in parentheses, for the second ending don't".

Since we are not writing this by hand, and have full typesetting tools at our disposal, I would prefer to notate it verbosely.

Rereading your comment, I think we might already be in agreement ;) I suppose I'm just saying that the second ending approach removes the need to have the parenthesized chords.

OK. I'm good with all of this.

I've compiled a list of the tunes that should be adapted to this new style:

• [x] A Fine Romance
• [x] A Foggy Day
• [ ] Afternoon in Paris
• [x] All Of Me
• [ ] Alone Together
• [ ] As Time Goes By
• [ ] Autumn Leaves
• [x] Blue Bossa
• [ ] Come Rain Or Come Shine
• [ ] Donna Lee
• [ ] Gentle Rain
• [ ] Green Dolphin Street
• [ ] I Could Write A Book
• [ ] I'll Close My Eyes
• [ ] Isn't It Romantic
• [ ] Just Friends
• [ ] Misty
• [ ] My Favorite Things
• [ ] Nature Boy
• [ ] Once I Loved
• [ ] One Note Samba
• [ ] Someone To Watch Over Me
• [ ] Summertime
• [ ] The Shadow of Your Smile

I've started my work here. I'll send a pull request when I finish.

You are productive...:) (I need to learn how you did this fancy list...)

https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown#task-lists

Now that I have permission to commit myself, I am just writing these changes directly to master and checking them off as I go.