Frescobaldi is an editor for

LilyPond LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand. LilyPond is cross- ...

music files. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is

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, freely available under the

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. It is designed to run on all major operating systems (

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and Microsoft Windows). It is named after

Girolamo Frescobaldi Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (; also Gerolamo, Girolimo, and Geronimo Alissandro; September 15831 March 1643) was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he was one of the most important composers of ...

, an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period. Frescobaldi is written in Python and uses

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for its user interface.

Features

* Text editor with

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and automatic completion * Music view * MIDI player to proof-listen LilyPond-generated MIDI files * Wizard to quickly set up a new 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 colors, fonts and keyboard shortcuts * Translated into the following languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Galician, Turkish and Polish

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, articulations * Update LilyPond syntax using convert-ly, with display of differences

References

External links

* LilyPond Scorewriters Free music software Audio software that uses Qt Free software programmed in Python Scorewriters for Linux {{free-software-stub

Features

Music functions

See also

References

External links