LilyPond -- The GNU Project Music Typesetter

LilyPond is the GNU Project music typesetter. This program can print beautiful sheet music from a music definition file. It can also play mechanical performances to a MIDI file. Features include multiple staffs, meters, clefs, keys, lyrics, versatile input language, cadenzas, beams, slurs, triplets, formatting scores, part extraction. It includes a nice font of musical symbols. (italiano)(nederlands)
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Hmm, this is what it said yesterday too. I just want to know What's new today and then Download LilyPond.

Introduction

This is not a Fanmail/Hype page. These pages were entirely created from the LilyPond package-sources. A document on LilyPond's music description language Mudela is in the making. Note: These pages are created from the latest development snapshots of LilyPond, specifically, this page was made from LilyPond 1.0.0.tar.gz

Sites

http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/
Han-Wen's site.

http://www.digicash.com/~jan/lilypond/
Jan's site.

Mirrors

http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/lilypond/
Eric Praetzel was kind enough to provide a mirror of both the website and the ftp site.

Examples

  • short examples of what LilyPond can do: MIDI, PS, .gif and input.
  • examples of what LilyPond can do with real music: MIDI, PS, .gif and input
  • NEWS

    This is what the latest version brings:

    
    
    August 1
    
    VERSION 1.0.0
    
    	- scsii-paper: no wordwrap
    	- bf's: texinfo
    
    pl 85.jcn2
    	- ONEWS -> NEWS-0.1
    	- bf: zip: list of docfiles
    	- bf: install info
    	- bf's: rpm spec
    	- website ok
    	- mudela version bump -> 1.0.0
    	- bf's: '[a-g] -> ,
    	- bf: broken.ly
    	- ly2dvi fixes, (PC)
    
    pl 85.hwn1
    	- search & replace: jan@digicash.com -> janneke@gnu.org
    
    pl 85.jcn1
    	- website fixes
    	- debian fixes (thanks, Bastian Kleineidam)
    	- some (yet unfinished) doco
    
    
    
    
    
    

    Go get it at ftp://pcnov095.win.tue.nl/pub/lilypond/development/

    Documentation

  • All of the LilyPond documentation.
  • The DOC++ documentation of the C++ sources.


  • Please take me back to the index of LilyPond
    This page was built from lilypond-1.0.0 by


    <janneke@gnu.org>