Re: [musicxml] Separate Roman numeral analysis and chord symbols (#295)

Thank you @Marr11317 and @MarcSabatella for raising this issue. I don't think we have a lot of implementations of Roman numeral analysis in MusicXML, so it is likely the documentation could be improved. I would like to explore this some more to see if this is mainly a documentation issue, or if there is indeed a need to separate out Roman numeral analysis.

It has been a long time since my school days with Roman numeral analysis, but I believe that the examples mentioned would be done as follows.

IV would be:

```<harmony>
  <function>IV</function>
  <kind>major</kind>
</harmony>```

IV6 (superscript 6) would be:

```<harmony>
  <function>IV</function>
  <kind>major-sixth</kind>
</harmony>```

V/IV would be:

```<harmony>
  <function>V</function>
  <kind>major</kind>
  <function>IV</function>
  <kind>major</kind>
</harmony>```

I would appreciate suggestions as to how to clarify the documentation to make this more obvious. If you think I have something wrong because of my inexperience with Roman numeral analysis, please reply with a correction.

Please list other questions here so that we can be sure to clarify the documentation for 3.2. By exploring this are some more we may also find that some additional functionality is needed, either in the current elements or by separating things out.

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