Frescobaldi
Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor for KDE4.
It is a powerful program for creating and editing music notation. It
aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use.
Frescobaldi provides a host of features to help you to enter
LilyPond music scores as quickly as possible.
Features include:
- Enter LilyPond scores, then build and preview them with a
mouseclick
- Point-and-click support: click on notes or on error
messages to jump to the corresponding position in the LilyPond file
- A Score Setup Wizard that helps you to quickly setup a
LilyPond score, generating LilyPond input in a very human-like way
- Blank staff paper generator
- Syntax coloring that also signals some often made mistakes
- Snippet manager to enter lilypond snippets using keystrokes
or mnemonics
- Context sensitive autocompletion, helping you to enter
LilyPond commands
- Hyphenate lyrics using wordprocessor hyphenation
dictionaries
- Built-in editor to enter and manipulate music:
- Advanced syntax coloring that also signals some often
made errors
- Auto-indent nested structures, those can be folded for
quick overview
- Context sensitive autocompletion, to quickly enter
commands and parameters
- Manipulate pitch (transpose, translate, relative/absolute
conversion)
- Manipulate rhythm (scale, copy/paste durations over other
music, etc.)
- Quickly enter or add articulations and other symbols to
existing music
- Run the document through convert-ly to update it to a
newer LilyPond version
- Expansion dialog to enter larger snippets of LilyPond
input using keyboard shortcuts or short mnemonics
- A powerful Rumor plugin, using the Rumor program to quickly
enter music by playing it on a MIDI keyboard or even your computer
keyboard
- Built-in MIDI player, terminal, and a blank staff paper
generator which creates blank music staff paper and prints it or saves
it to a file
- Five types of staff paper: Single staff, piano staff,
organ staff, choir staff, and custom staff
- LilyPond documentation browser with context sensitive lookup
- User Guide with help buttons (F1)
- Internationalisation support: Translated into Dutch,
English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and
Polish
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