Frescobaldi (Software)

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the General Public License. Features: Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting and automatic completion Music view with advanced two-way Point & Click Midi player to proof-listen LilyPond-generated MIDI files Midi capturing to enter music Powerful Score Wizard to quickly setup a music score Snippet Manager to store and apply text snippets, templates or scripts Use multiple versions of LilyPond, automatically selects the correct version Built-in LilyPond documentation browser and built-in help Configurable document outline view to navigate large LilyPond scores easily Smart layout-control functions like coloring specific objects in the PDF Import ABC, Midi and MusicXML using the LilyPond-provided tools Experimental export to MusicXML Modern user interface with configurable colors, fonts and keyboard shortcuts Translated into: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Galician, Turkish, Polish, Brazilian, Ukrainian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Frescobaldi is designed to run on all major operating systems (Linux, macOS and Windows). It is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period. Here is an idea of the basic Frescobaldi workflow: Start Frescobaldi Open a .ly file or create one using File- New from template or Tools- Setup new Score... and fill in some music Press Ctrl+M to run LilyPond If the LilyPond output shows errors, press Ctrl+E to jump to the first error If you see other mistakes in the music, click the notes to move the text cursor there Fix the errors or mistakes in the text Press Ctrl+M again to update the music view When a piece is finished, press Ctrl+Shift+P once to run LilyPond with point and click turned off (this results in a much smaller PDF file). Frescobaldi is written in Python and uses PyQt for its user interface. Installation instructions for the program and MIDI support as well as other information can be found in the Wiki. Other requirements and installation instructions may also be found in the INSTALL.md file.