#lilypond — Public Fediverse posts

I've been really enjoying working with Lilypond! Today I wrote about some more helpful ways to work with MIDI files in the terminal and quickly build Lilypond projects from Neovim:

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2026/05/neovim-lilypond-midi-files-terminal/

#Lilypond #Neovim #MIDI #Composer #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical #MaxMSP #ElectronicMusic

I've been really enjoying working with Lilypond! Today I wrote about some more helpful ways to work with MIDI files in the terminal and quickly build Lilypond projects from Neovim:

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2026/05/neovim-lilypond-midi-files-terminal/

#Lilypond #Neovim #MIDI #Composer #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical #MaxMSP #ElectronicMusic

I've been really enjoying working with Lilypond! Today I wrote about some more helpful ways to work with MIDI files in the terminal and quickly build Lilypond projects from Neovim:

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2026/05/neovim-lilypond-midi-files-terminal/

#Lilypond #Neovim #MIDI #Composer #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical #MaxMSP #ElectronicMusic

I've been really enjoying working with Lilypond! Today I wrote about some more helpful ways to work with MIDI files in the terminal and quickly build Lilypond projects from Neovim:

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2026/05/neovim-lilypond-midi-files-terminal/

#Lilypond #Neovim #MIDI #Composer #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical #MaxMSP #ElectronicMusic

I've been really enjoying working with Lilypond! Today I wrote about some more helpful ways to work with MIDI files in the terminal and quickly build Lilypond projects from Neovim:

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2026/05/neovim-lilypond-midi-files-terminal/

#Lilypond #Neovim #MIDI #Composer #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical #MaxMSP #ElectronicMusic

@pavel Oh, has somebody made a web frontend to #lilypond?

#Pitcher #Plant - #Carnivorous #Plant by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/pitcher-plant-carnivorous-plant-kaye-menner.html

#photograph #pond #lilypond #waterplant #red #green #redgreen #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

#Pitcher #Plant - #Carnivorous #Plant by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/pitcher-plant-carnivorous-plant-kaye-menner.html

#photograph #pond #lilypond #waterplant #red #green #redgreen #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

#Pitcher #Plant - #Carnivorous #Plant by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/pitcher-plant-carnivorous-plant-kaye-menner.html

#photograph #pond #lilypond #waterplant #red #green #redgreen #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

#Pitcher #Plant - #Carnivorous #Plant by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/pitcher-plant-carnivorous-plant-kaye-menner.html

#photograph #pond #lilypond #waterplant #red #green #redgreen #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Update: I found this (macOS) utility for playing MIDI files from the command line and it works great with Lilypond/Neovim!

https://ssb22.user.srcf.net/mwrhome/mac-midi.html

It's about a hundred lines of C, which means even if it's abandoned at some point I should be able to update it myself.

The problem with a lot of similar programs is they use e.g., fluidsynth, when what I want is to play the file back over the IAC bus into Max/MSP, SuperCollider/etc. This lets me choose the starting point in the MIDI file and easily play it into IAC from my terminal!

#Neovim #Lilypond #macOS #MIDI #Composer

Some people are able to live code music using a Lilypond like language! This is… next level (or insane, you choose ;)
https://vimeo.com/1041385184

coming from https://github.com/alexdrymonitis/LiveLily

#music #live #lilypond

I hadn't noticed Lilypond was on a new version until just a bit ago — I saw `GNU LilyPond 2.26.0 (running Guile 3.0)` in the terminal and was momentarily very confused

Today I finally got around to joining the Lilypond mailing list and the music Stack Exchange to ask some questions, only to realize after the fact that the code I sent had just become outdated

Didn't actually need to change anything other than the version number & one meter thing, but still funny

#Lilypond

GNU LilyPond 2.26.0 was released today as the first ”stable“ version since 2022.

LilyPond is a music engraving program devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

Changelog: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.26/Documentation/changes/

Download: https://lilypond.org/download.html or https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/releases/v2.26.0

I suggest installing it from within Frescobaldi, the Lilypond IDE:
https://www.frescobaldi.org/

#LilyPond #typesetting #engraving

I asked this question on the music Stack Exchange, and if anyone has an answer that would be greatly appreciated!

I'm looking for how to get the doubled trill line here in Lilypond, as well as ideally, multiple noteheads in the parentheses:

https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/143544/double-trill-notation-in-lilypond

#Lilypond #ClassicalMusic #Composer #Scheme #Programming #Coding

More success porting Lilypond/Frescobaldi capabilities over to Neovim: I can now easily do musical transformations on Lilypond notation!

I can transpose passages, double/halve the durations, dot/undot everything, apply a completely new rhythmic pattern, or remove repeated duration indicators or make them explicit again.

This uses the remote plugin feature on Neovim: https://github.com/reillypascal/nvim/tree/main/rplugin/python3

#Neovim #Nvim #Lilypond #Frescobaldi #Python #Composition #ClassicalMusic

I think I figured it out

#lilypond

As someone who is barely used to use #MuseScore, #lilypond is a completely different, confusing beast…
Why are the default distances so small, glueing everything together?
What's a score? What's an instrument? What do all these curly braces mean? How much time will I have to spend to read the docs to understand all this?

o.o

This is exactly what I was looking for: "Flams, drags and ruffs" for drums #lilypond partitions https://wiki.lilypond.community/wiki/Flams,_drags_and_ruffs

and it works as expected!

#music #notation #drums

I've been using Lilypond to write musical notation with code, and here I write about how to get a convenient, smooth experience while writing that code in Neovim!

I'm definitely planning to stick with this, and I'll be writing about some more fun things to do with Lilypond soon.

https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2026/02/friendly-lilypond-with-neovim-audacity/

#Lilypond #Composition #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical #Neovim #MIDI #Audio #Audacity

Beautiful article on #GNU #LilyPond "Lilypond Music-Notation Software in the Digital-Humanities Toolbox" -- Andrew A. Cashner

https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/18/2/000573/000573.html

#gnulilypond

@splitbrain War alles halb so wild, hab mein Lilypack-Script mit Ansible angereichert. Nun werden aus der Lilypond Datei alle Dateien generiert und diese in das betreffende Dokuwiki Verzeichnis kopiert und auch die zugehörige automatisch generierte Detailseite dann im Dokuwiki abgelegt. (vorerst nur auf der IPv6-Webseite )
https://ebersberger-liedersammlung.de
#EbersbergerLiedersammlung #dokuwiki #lilypond

While I prefer to bring my own text editor, the dedicated Frescobaldi editor is useful to play MIDI output into a virtual bus, and send that to Max to host some VSTs and my MIDI keyboard performance patch.

#Lilypond #SheetMusic #Composition #Composer #MaxMSP #Neovim

Finally taking the plunge and learning Lilypond! It's kind of like LaTeX for sheet music.

I'd been interested since the Finale debacle, and while Dorico has been nice, I'm finding that in many cases I prefer writing text files to working in a graphical program, so it made sense to give it a go.

#Lilypond #SheetMusic #Composition #Composer #MaxMSP #Neovim

I finally learnt how to create beautiful custom frets (#guitar chord images) with #lilypond.

This is Am*, an A-moll where the fingers are on fret 5 to sound more harp-like. The diagram is customized to show 5 frets instead of the default 4, and size 5 to make it look good here:

\markup {
\override #'(size . 5) {
\override #'(fret-diagram-details . (
(fret-count . 5))) {
\fret-diagram "6-x;5-o;4-x;3-5;2-5;1-5;"
}
}
}

See https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-fretted-strings

#guile #music

Here's my transcription of Sussex Cotillion.
PDF : https://opentrad.net/transcriptions/trad/vol_6/cotillion-sussex_en.pdf

And one of my sources, "A selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and foreign airs - Vol.3 - Glasgow, 1801" : https://archive.org/details/selectionofscotc01rugg/page/164/mode/2up "La Novellé Holéndoise"

#sheetMusic #musicScore #Lilypond

Voici ma transcription de Sussex Cotillion : https://opentrad.net/transcriptions/trad/vol_6/cotillion-sussex.pdf
D'après les trois sources indiquées. Je te montre celle, écossaise, de 1801, pour son magnifique titre (car pour faire français, il suffit de mettre des traits sur les "e", bravo) 😋
Le son est plus haut dans ce fil.

#partition #lilypond

Rumiando sobre licencias.

Si publico partituras en PDF bajo licencia CC0 (dedicación al dominio público):

1. Entiendo que las grabaciones que las acompañen pueden llevar otra licencia (CC-BY, voy a pensar y repensar si tb SA y NC)

2. (Aquí la duda) si publico las fuentes #lilypond * y los scripts que permiten generar los PDF, ¿han de llevar la misma licencia de estos? ¿O una licencia de software? ¿O una licencia para lo ejecutable y otra para los datos?

Si eres humano estándar y no sabes qué es Lilypond: es un programa que permite generar partituras en PDF (y otros formatos) a partir de ficheros de texto que usan un lenguaje de marcas (al estilo de LaTeX) y código (en Scheme).

Aparte de esto, en mis proyectos de Lilypond uso scripts (en bash, por lo general) para facilitar la creación de diferentes versiones, la generación de ficheros iniciales a partir de plantillas, etc.

Esto último es lo que creo que iría bajo otra licencia (LGPL, quizá).

¿Cómo lo veis?

So. Statt dem #39c3 nachzutrauern, arrangiere ich lieber an emotionaler Musik weiter. Hab hier sogar eine Art Instrument gefunden und mir ein Studio eingerichtet :thisisfine: :fairydust:

Now I am less then what I was, whatever's left is yours now. 🎶

#acapella #arrangement #smab #joco #lilypond #frescobaldi

Neuer aktueller Stand der Lieder in unserer #EbersbergerLiedersammlung ist nunmehr:

Ist-Stand der erstellten und geprüften #Lilypond Dateien auf dem Webserver:
[django@vml000107 lieder]$ ll *.ly | wc -l
247

247 gemeinfreie Lieder zur freien Verwendung \o/

Nun ja, irgendwie juckt es mich schon noch die 150 voll zu machen, aber auf der anderen Seite sind wir mit 177 Liedern am 13.9.2013 gestartet. Somit sind es im Moment 70 Lieder mehr geworden, Spezieller Dank geht hier an @baeuchle !

Sodala, für 2025 bin ich erst mal durch mit Lilypond'n von alten gemeinfreiem Liedgut. Mein Plan für 2026 ist erst mal erst in Q/III/IV wieder damit zu beginnen.
#EbersbergerLiedersammlung #Lilypond

..ok, pare che comunque io abbia ancora installato la vecchia versione di Frescobaldi, la 3.3.0, quindi posso continuare a mantenere i miei vecchi file con tutti i comandi deprecati che funzionavano (per le mie esigenze) perfettamente.
Ho dovuto giusto allestire un diverso lanciatore e ho risolto (aggirato) il problema.

@linux
#linux #flatpak #frescobaldi #lilyjazz #lilypond

Allora, con una versione flatpak di Frescobaldi è impossibile far coesistere precedenti versioni di lilypond, o almeno, versioni precedenti la 2.24.4 (ultima stabile). Ora, io ho necessità di avere il numero pagina in basso centrato, qualcuno ha qualche idea che non sia stata deprecata dalla 2.22.2?

@linux
#linux #flatpak #frescobaldi #lilyjazz #lilypond

Ha funzionato, ora sono curioso di vedere un'altra cosa però...

@linux
#linux #flatpak #frescobaldi #lilyjazz #lilypond

...situazione attuale, dopo aver cercato un po' è uscito che c'è un problema nella identificazione dei font e mi viene suggerito (dal chatbot del motore di ricerca) di provare a usare una versione flatpak...

Incrocio le dita e spero.

@linux
#linux #flatpak #frescobaldi #lilyjazz #lilypond

...situazione attuale, dopo aver cercato un po' è uscito che c'è un problema nella identificazione dei font e mi viene suggerito (dal chatbot del motore di ricerca) di provare a usare una versione flatpak...

Incrocio le dita e spero.

@linux
#linux #flatpak #frescobaldi #lilyjazz #lilypond

...situazione attuale, dopo aver cercato un po' è uscito che c'è un problema nella identificazione dei font e mi viene suggerito (dal chatbot del motore di ricerca) di provare a usare una versione flatpak...

Incrocio le dita e spero.

@linux
#linux #flatpak #frescobaldi #lilyjazz #lilypond

Ho bisogno di installare una vecchia versione di lilypond, la 2.18.2, ho trovato i vecchi binari qui: https://lilypond.org/download/binaries/linux-64/, ho modificato il file per installarli nel path desiderato ma non funziona, qualcuno può darmi una mano?

@[email protected] @linux
#linuxhelp #lilypond #needhelp

Looking for a great #music #partition #editor for my needs:
- #guitar with both partition and #tablature
- #drums also

I have spent a lot of time with lilypond/frescobaldi (I prefer the idea of 'coding' the partition) but I struggle to get what I want, it's so frustrating.
I just tried musescore and I already gave up (because moving a note from one string to another, inserting a note between others… are a pain in the a**)
Not sure what I will enjoying using.

#lilypond #frescobaldi #musescore

Eigentlich würde ich nur gerne die #lyrics aus meinen #lilypond dateien als reine textversion exportieren. da gibt es zwar ein #snippet (https://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=744) , aber das kann nicht mit "repeat volta" umgehen.......

deshalb schaue ich mal, in wie weit #scheme bzw. #guile in meinen kopf rein will......🙈 🤪

#programming #programmierung #ImmerWiederWasNeues

Ein neues #arrangement ist fertig. Ich bin gespannt, wie das dann mit dem #Kinderchor zusammen klingen wird.

#vorfreude #chor #choir #singen #singing #music #musik #childrenchoir #musicarrangement #musikarrangement #IchUndIch #SoSollEsBleiben #lilypond

Schöne Musik muss auch schön aussehen und der #Pianist meines #Jazz Duos war auch sehr angetan von dem Aussehen.

Ich mag ja die geschwungene Schreibweise (Notenschlüssel, Vorzeichen, ....). Nur bei dem Liedtext habe ich eine andere Schrift genommen, damit ich sie besser lesen kann. Ich werde ja auch nicht jünger 🤪

#lilypond #music #musik #sheetmusic #leadsheet #TexLaTeX #noten #musiknoten

I'll talk about it more later, but among my new school year resolutions is to finish the free/libre version of #BoeufTrad 1 (couple dances and #balFolk stuff).

It's a collection of free dance tunes engraved on #Lilypond with a carefully researched bibliography (tune references). #boostOk

https://boeuftrad.org/

#balFolk #traditionalDance #freeArtLicense #session #jamSession #musicSession

I'll talk about it more later, but among my new school year resolutions is to finish the free/libre version of #BoeufTrad 1 (couple dances and #balFolk stuff).

It's a collection of free dance tunes engraved on #Lilypond with a carefully researched bibliography (tune references). #boostOk

https://boeuftrad.org/

#balFolk #traditionalDance #freeArtLicense #session #jamSession #musicSession

I'll talk about it more later, but among my new school year resolutions is to finish the free/libre version of #BoeufTrad 1 (couple dances and #balFolk stuff).

It's a collection of free dance tunes engraved on #Lilypond with a carefully researched bibliography (tune references). #boostOk

https://boeuftrad.org/

#balFolk #traditionalDance #freeArtLicense #session #jamSession #musicSession

I'll talk about it more later, but among my new school year resolutions is to finish the free/libre version of #BoeufTrad 1 (couple dances and #balFolk stuff).

It's a collection of free dance tunes engraved on #Lilypond with a carefully researched bibliography (tune references). #boostOk

https://boeuftrad.org/

#balFolk #traditionalDance #freeArtLicense #session #jamSession #musicSession

I'll talk about it more later, but among my new school year resolutions is to finish the free/libre version of #BoeufTrad 1 (couple dances and #balFolk stuff).

It's a collection of free dance tunes engraved on #Lilypond with a carefully researched bibliography (tune references). #boostOk

https://boeuftrad.org/

#balFolk #traditionalDance #freeArtLicense #session #jamSession #musicSession

:boost_requested: J'en reparlerai mais parmi les bonnes résolutions de rentrée, il y a : s'atteler à finir la version libre du #BoeufTrad 1 (danses de couple et trucs de #balFolk)

C'est un recueil d'airs libres à danser gravés sur #Lilypond avec biblio soignée (réfs des morceaux) #boostOk #RepouêtBienvenu

https://boeuftrad.org/

#balFolk #musiqueLibre #licenceArtLibre #ccbysa #danseTrad

#LilyPond wizards here: I am typesetting a baroque piece that ends with a breve in all voices. Lilypond prints a bar line there that I want to hide (just for that final measure). How do I do that?

#MusicTypesetting #notation #MusicNotation