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Revision as of 18:59, 29 July 2018
LilyPond is a free score writing application. Its input is a plain text file in the LilyPond music writing format, and its output is in either PostScript or PDF.
Installation
Front-ends
- Denemo — Supports keyboard, MIDI and acoustic input, written in C.
- http://denemo.org/ || denemoAUR
- Frescobaldi — Provides music view with two-way point & click, MIDI capturing and playback, written in Python with PyQt.
Usage
Create a test file like:
test.ly
{
c' e' g' e'
}
To compile it, use:
$ lilypond test.ly
It will create test.pdf and test.ps files that contain your score.
LilyPond provides musicxml2ly(1) to convert MusicXML to the LilyPond format.
For more information, see info lilypond, lilypond(1) and the documentation.
Text editor support
LilyPond comes with modes for Emacs and Vim, see the documentation.
For Vim see the filetype plugin /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/lilypond.vim for the available key mappings.