Frescobaldi
A powerful, lightweight text editor for creating sheet music with LilyPond, featuring syntax highlighting, music preview, and MIDI support.
What is Frescobaldi?
Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor designed to be powerful, lightweight, and user-friendly. It provides a specialized environment for writing and editing LilyPond code with features like syntax highlighting, real-time music preview, MIDI playback, and advanced music manipulation tools, streamlining the process of creating professional-quality sheet music.
Musicians, composers, arrangers, and music engravers who use LilyPond for typesetting sheet music and need an efficient, feature-rich editor to manage their workflow.
Developers choose Frescobaldi for its deep integration with LilyPond, offering two-way editing between text and music view, comprehensive music functions, and cross-platform support, all while remaining free and open-source under the GPL license.
Overview
Frescobaldi LilyPond Editor
Use Cases
Best For
- Editing and previewing LilyPond sheet music files in real-time
- Transposing music or changing note languages within scores
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