Lilypond

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LilyPond

https://www.gnu.org/software/lilypond/
Music typesetter.

Produces sheet music using a high level descriptive file as input. It excels at typesetting classical music, but you can also use it for pop music.

Documentation

Selection from the FSF shop

Free as in Freedom 2.0, by Richard Stallman

Introduction to the Command Line

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Helping the GNU Project and the Free Software Movement

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If you have corrections to this entry or questions about it, please contact: mailto:maintainers@gnu.org

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This is a GNU package:lilypond

Download

http://lilypond.org/download/source/v2.19/lilypond-2.19.82.tar.gz

version 2.19.82 (stable)
released on 24 June 2018

User level

Beginner

Donate link

https://my.fsf.org/donate/

Accepts cryptocurrency donations.

Paid support

https://www.fsf.org/resources/service/

VCS Checkout

git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/lilypond.git

Categories

• Hobbies:music
• Interface:command-line
• Programming-language:C++
• Programming-language:python
• Programming-language:guile
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Use:hobbies

Related Projects

• DansTuner
• MusiXTeX
• Note Editor
• Rosegarden
• Rumor
• Abc2ps
• Denemo
• TTRM
• Gnustandards

Licensing

License

Verified by

Verified on

Notes

License

GPLv3orlater

Verified by

Kelly Hopkins

Verified on

18 November 2009

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Malte Meyn	maintainer
Dan Eble	maintainer
David Kastrup	maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Debian (Ref)		https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lilypond
	Download	https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/lilypond/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-cvs/
	Download	http://lilypond.org/download/source/
	General	https://translationproject.org/domain/lilypond.html
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-lilypond/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel/
Savannah (Ref)		https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/lilypond/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr/
	VCS Repository Webview	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lilypond.git/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-es/
	General	https://savannah.gnu.org/people/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond/
	Download	https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/lilypond/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-auto/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to build	Guile >= 1.3.4
Required to build	egcs 1.1 or newer or gcc
Required to build	flex (v. 2.5.4 or newer)
Required to build	bison (v. 1.25 or newer)
Required to use	gcc 2.95.2 or newer or EGCS
Required to build	Python 1.5
Required to build	GNU make

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 19 January 2019.

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