frescobaldi

LilyPond sheet music text editor

Description

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the GNU General Public License.

Features:

 * Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting and automatic completion
 * Music view with advanced 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 Frescobaldi User Guide
 * Smart layout-control functions like coloring specific objects in the PDF
 * MusicXML, MIDI and ABC import
 * Modern user interface with configurable colors, fonts and keyboard shortcuts
 * Translated into Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian,
   Spanish, Galician, Turkish, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese and Ukrainian.

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

In order to use lyric hyphenation, please install your languages' appropriate hyphenation packages, e.g. hyphen-fr for French, hyphen-ca for Catalan, etc.

Frescobaldi is designed to run on all major operating systems (Linux, macOS and MS Windows). It is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.

Upload more screenshots

Please help extend the collection of screenshots. Just make a screenshot and upload it here. You don't need to register or anything.

Upload a screenshot

Hint: upload an image here from your clipboard with Ctrl-V


Homepage

https://www.frescobaldi.org/


Install this software package

If the package is available for the distribution you are currently using on your computer then install the software by clicking on…

Install frescobaldi