Wow. LilyPond is truly amazing!

[herodotus]

For the longest time I neglected this awesome application because I was put off by the input format, but after making myself spend a half hour going through the voluminous documentation I realized just how perfect it is for creating precise and beautiful notated representations of even the most complex musical ideas.

It is finally allowing me to write the book on rhythm and drum technique that I have wanted to write for 20 years. The stupid part is that I have known about it for at least 10 of those 20 years.

Well, better late than never.

[StudioDave]

Greetings,

Yep, it's pretty neat. A few things done quite a while ago :

http://linux-sound.org/dlp-music-lilypond/

I've also done a few scores of recent material but they're not ready for going on-line yet.

You might like the Frescobaldi front-end, it's my favorite :

http://frescobaldi.org/

Have fun.

Edit: And then there's FOMUS :

http://fomus.sourceforge.net/

and Karim Hadda's nice utility for OpenMusic :

https://github.com/karimhaddad/omlily

Best,

dp

[herodotus]

Greetings,

Yep, it's pretty neat. A few things done quite a while ago :

http://linux-sound.org/dlp-music-lilypond/

I've also done a few scores of recent material but they're not ready for going on-line yet.

You might like the Frescobaldi front-end, it's my favorite :

http://frescobaldi.org/

Have fun.

Edit: And then there's FOMUS :

http://fomus.sourceforge.net/

and Karim Hadda's nice utility for OpenMusic :

https://github.com/karimhaddad/omlily

Best,

dp

Now Dave, don't go giving me more options, I already don't have enough hours in my day to get anything done!

Your scores look great. Do you have any recordings of the music?

[StudioDave]

And then there's ...

Now Dave, don't go giving me more options, I already don't have enough hours in my day to get anything done!

I know how that is.

Your scores look great. Do you have any recordings of the music?

I have some very old recordings made with some rather crappy MIDI instrumental sounds:

http://linux-sound.org/audio/Sonatina_For_Guitar.wav

http://linux-sound.org/audio/Trio_For_F ... assoon.wav

I might have a recording of Umeko around here somewhere. I really should record that one myself, but it's been a long while since my chops were up to it.

Best,

dp

[VicDiesel]

Yeah, the visual quality of Lilypond is to me the best of available software that I know of.

You may be amused by something I wrote on another forum: https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-ini ... r-Eijkhout

I haven't explored the front ends; I use Lilypond in cases where the music is already settled, and MuseScore for the cases where I'm still experimenting with the piece.

Victor.

PS since Lilypond is ascii based, I used it in one case where I had a python program generate the Lilypond source. http://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg ... ales-c.pdf

[StudioDave]

Greetings,

You may be amused by something I wrote on another forum: https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-ini ... r-Eijkhout

I enjoyed it.

I attended a few conferences with Han-wen and Jan, the original developers of LilyPond. At the time their presentations included comparisons of LP's output with the big guns of the publishing industry, e.g. Peters, Schirmer, UE, etc. The guys had done incredible research into the fine points of traditional music engraving, they wanted LP scores to look as good or better than the best of the established publishers. I've seen other comparisons between LP and Finale, Sibelius, MuseScore, etc. Most get the fact that LP is essentially a music typesetting program (with extended capabilities of some interest to composers) and not a composition environment.

I haven't explored the front ends; I use Lilypond in cases where the music is already settled, and MuseScore for the cases where I'm still experimenting with the piece.

I like MuseSCore but since I want a direct line to LilyPond I use Frescobaldi for my front-end of choice. I still tend to compose with a sequencer, but I think Frescobaldi could be used as a good notation-based composition environment.

PS since Lilypond is ascii based, I used it in one case where I had a python program generate the Lilypond source. http://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg ... ales-c.pdf

Nice. LP's Guile/Scheme code opens doors to algorithmic scoring as well, though I understand there are problems currently with the development of Guile relevant to LP. IIRC Guile 2.n is not compatible with LP's implementation and there is discussion about Guile's future in LP.

Best regards,

Dave Phillips

[3lu5iv3]

Thank you for valuable information. I love Lilypond.
I remember back in the day when i spent hours making a single page rhythmic exercises for my students.
LOL the learning curve was pretty steep. But the result never ceases to amaze me.