Latest news:
May 14th, 2010:
Nice review of LilyPond on Create Digital Music also mentions Frescobaldi.
February 28th, 2010:
Nice review of Frescobaldi in
The LilyPond Report #17.
October, 2009: Frescobaldi coverage in the German
LinuxUser
magazine (Full PDF).
August 3rd, 2009:
Frescobaldi wins "Hottest Pick" award in issue #117 of LinuxFormat (April)
Releases: Stable: 1.0.3 (Aug 16th, 2010, Changes, Download) Development: 1.1.5 (Aug 16th, 2010, Changes, Download)
What is Frescobaldi?
Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor for KDE4. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the General Public License.
Features:
- Enter LilyPond scores and preview them with a mouseclick
- Advanced Point & Click: click on notes to jump to the correct position in the text, even if the document has changed
- Setup a music score very quickly using the Score Wizard
- Enter music via MIDI using the Rumor plugin
- LilyPond documentation browser with context-sensitive help
The built-in editor has many powerful features to enter and manipulate music:
- Advanced syntax coloring that also signals some often made errors
- Auto-indent nested structures, those can be folded for quick overview
- Context sensitive autocompletion, to quickly enter commands and parameters
- Manipulate pitch (transpose, translate, relative/absolute conversion)
- Manipulate rhythm (scale, copy/paste durations over other music, etc.)
- Hyphenate lyrics
- Quickly enter or add articulations and other symbols to existing music
- Run the document through convert-ly to update it to a newer LilyPond version
- Expansion dialog to enter larger snippets of LilyPond input using keyboard shortcuts or short mnemonics
There are some other nice tools such as a built-in terminal and a blank staff paper generator. Frescobaldi has a comprehensive User Guide that's accessible from everywhere using the F1 key. Frescobaldi is translated into the following languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Galician, Turkish and Polish.
It is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of very nice music :-)
Nederlandse versie | Last modified: 16 aug 2010