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GNU LilyPond
Welcome to the home of the GNU Music Typesetter
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What is LilyPond? What can it do for you?
LilyPond prints beautiful sheet music. It produces music notation from a description file. It excels at typesetting classical music, but you can also print pop-songs.
LilyPond input is plain text. So, you can use your favorite text editor to enter it, you can put it in mail or embed it in an article like this:
Or you can use it to print music from other programs, using one of the numerous input filters.\key c \minor r8 c16 b c8 g as c16 b c8 d | g,4
LilyPond output looks beautiful. The font and the layout algorithms were inspired by engraved music, so you can expect that same clear and elegant look from your LilyPond output. And if anything is not to your liking, you can tweak almost everything.
LilyPond is free software. It is part of the GNU Project. It is licensed under GNU General Public License, so you can use, modify and redistribute the program with almost no restrictions.
Want to know more?
If you want to know more, visit the documentation page. If you want to see some sheet music, then have a look at the examples: we have short examples and longer examples. For even more sheet music, head over to the mutopia project.
Please send GNU LilyPond questions and comments to gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org.
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Copyright (c) 1997--2001 Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
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