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Frescobaldi Wilbert Berendsen
Use this command to install Frescobaldi:
winget install --id=WilbertBerendsen.Frescobaldi -e Frescobaldi is a free and open source LilyPond sheet music text editor.
Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor designed to streamline the creation and editing of musical scores. Offering syntax highlighting, automatic completion, a two-way Point & Click music view, and an integrated MIDI player for proof-listening, Frescobaldi provides powerful tools for music composition. Ideal for composers, arrangers, and musicians working with LilyPond, it enhances productivity by simplifying complex tasks. Available for installation via winget on Windows, Frescobaldi is a free and open-source solution that supports various operating systems.
README
README for Frescobaldi
About Frescobaldi
Homepage: http://www.frescobaldi.org/
Main author: Wilbert Berendsen
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.
Music functions:
- Transpose music
- Change music from relative to absolute and vice versa
- Change the language used for note names
- Change the rhythm (double, halve, add/remove dots, copy, paste) etc
- Hyphenate lyrics using word-processor hyphenation dictionaries
- Add spanners, dynamics, articulation easily using the Quick Insert panel
- Update LilyPond syntax using convert-ly, with display of differences
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