Frescobaldi

LilyPond sheet music text editor

Frescobaldi is an advanced text editor to edit LilyPond sheet music files. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use.

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 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 the following languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Galician,Turkish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Ukrainian.

Frescobaldi is designed to run on all major operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X 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.

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.

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How to install Frescobaldi in Ubuntu

If you are on a supported distro, you can install the application through software center by clicking the below link.

Install Frescobaldi

If the above link not working, run the below command in terminal to install frescobaldi in Ubuntu

sudo apt install frescobaldi

Frescobaldi Screenshots

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