LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
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LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
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Re: LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
#2Lily pond is great! I used it to be able to script the creation of musical examples to be put on PowerPoint slides and instructional videos. With a little bit of tinkering, you can get Lily pond output as an SVG to play nicely with Manim, and get some really interesting computational animations.
Re: LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
#3Related. Others?
“Compiling” Music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30625450 - March 2022 (44 comments)
Lyp – The Lilypond Swiss Army Knife - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13259590 - Dec 2016 (7 comments)
Obsessed with putting ink on paper or What's wrong with computer music notation? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1515262 - July 2010 (36 comments)
Open source typesetter for sheet music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192289 - March 2010 (23 comments)
LilyPond architecture (music notation software in Lisp) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=379234 - Nov 2008 (2 comments)
Re: LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
#4I've also used VexFlow to good effect producing web-friendly music notation. Given I've had to invent my own syntax for producing pieces with any rapidity, but it seems less complicated than this.
Re: LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
#5I tried to learn LilyPond once but it was a bit too arcane for my taste. Now I use MuseScore, WYSIWYG notation program which is a lot more intuitive (and, like LilyPond, also released under the GPL).
I write relatively simple music, though, mostly lead sheets. I always imagined LilyPond would shine in more complex scoring situations.
Re: LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
#6I tried to learn LilyPond once but it was a bit too arcane for my taste. Now I use MuseScore, WYSIWYG notation program which is a lot more intuitive (and, like LilyPond, also released under the GPL). I write relatively simple music, though, mostly lead sheets. I always imagined LilyPond would shine in more complex scoring situations.
LilyPond rules when you want to manipulate music algorithmically. Like make a music reading training app that creates examples based on your performance so far.
Re: LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
#7Related. Others? “Compiling” Music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30625450 - March 2022 (44 comments) Lyp – The Lilypond Swiss Army Knife - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13259590 - Dec 2016 (7 comments) Obsessed with putting ink on paper or What's wrong with computer music notation? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1515262 - July 2010 (36 comments) Open source typesetter for sheet music - https:/…
looks like this task could somehow be automated ;)
Re: LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
#8LilyPond is the best way to integrate sheet music into the text-only formats (Markdown, wiki markups, org-mode). MediaWiki supports LilyPond. Emacs org-mode supports LilyPond. In fact LilyPond is way more simple to make small score snippets than any WYSIWYG score editor.
Re: LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
#9A while back I built a music publishing company (long defunct) and used LilyPond to engrave all of our scores. I received comments from quite a few established composers that the engraving was the best they'd seen from any publisher.
I ended up with a collection of macros I used for common tasks. Probably the most-used was a macro that manually overrode the positioning of an element to be more visually pleasing or less confusing. Of course, it could be argued that the need for this indicates a deficiency of the engraving engine (and this was sometimes the case), but a manual final pass makes the difference between functional and professional-looking results. LilyPond's markup language made this easy.
LilyPond's test suite taught me the value of comprehensive test-driven development: every bug starts as an addition to the test suite, and a visual diff—including a numerical value indicating the amount of change—is taken of the entire suite in between versions. In this way, regressions are quickly identified.
Re: LilyPond: Music notation for everyone
#10I tried to learn LilyPond once but it was a bit too arcane for my taste. Now I use MuseScore, WYSIWYG notation program which is a lot more intuitive (and, like LilyPond, also released under the GPL). I write relatively simple music, though, mostly lead sheets. I always imagined LilyPond would shine in more complex scoring situations.
I only use LilyPond for engraving, and MuseScore for input. They complement each other that way as a free software replacement for the usual commercial options.