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.)
• Hyphenate lyrics
• 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
• Kinetic scrolling in the music view
• 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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Last Updated Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 09:12 AM EST