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[1]GNU LilyPond: One of the best-known and most ambitious music
programs for Linux is the LilyPond score engraving system.
* makes beautiful prints, seeks to to [2]revive the aesthetics of
traditionally engraved music through automated engraving engine
compacted to:
The LilyPond score engine seeks to revive the beuty and aesthetics of
traditonally handengraved music. It is supported directly by graphical
composition packages such as NoteEdit, Rosegarden and Denemo, but also
has an easy to type, well documented, text based file format (with Emacs
and Vim support) as well as a set of import filters including abc, etf
(Finale) and MIDI.
/jens
* easy to type, text based input
* extensive [3]documentation, including [4]tutorial and a
[5]glossary of musical terms for non-native English speakers
* prompt support by heavy development and active user community
* ready to print music scores from the [6]Mutopia Project
* import filters: abc2ly, etf2ly (Finale), midi2ly, mup2ly,
musedata2ly and [7]xml2ly
* supported by the printing engines of [8]NoteEdit, [9]Rosegarden
and [10]Denemo
* Emacs and VIM editing modes
References
1.
http://lilypond.org/
2.
http://lilypond.org/web/about/automated-engraving
3.
http://lilypond.org/documentation
4.
http://lilypond.org/tutorial
5.
http://lilypond.org/music-glossary
6.
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/
7.
http://www.nongnu.org/xml2ly/
8.
http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html
9.
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
10.
http://denemo.sf.net/
Greetings,
Jan.
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