LilyPond: The Music Typesetter

LilyPond is a compiler that transforms an ASCII definition of music into beautifully engraved sheet music. A small example is included here:
\relative c'' { \key es; r8 [c16 b] [c8 g] [as c16 b] [c8 d] | g,4 }

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Features include
  • A concise yet easy-to-read input language.
  • Beautiful output, comes with its own font.
  • Easy interfacing with (La)TeX
  • Support for Lyrics and Chords
  • MIDI output
  • Multiple voices on a staff, multiple staffs, polymetric music, nested tuplets, cross staff beaming and slurring.
  • Development releases can be had at ftp://ftp.cs.uu.nl/pub/GNU/LilyPond/development/. For more information, consult the LilyPond webpage, http://www.lilypond.org.
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    Please send GNU LilyPond questions and comments to gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org.

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    Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.

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