What is Frescobaldi?
Frescobaldi is a powerful yet lightweight and user-friendly LilyPond sheet music text editor. It is freely available as Free Software under the General Public License, designed to run on all major operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, and MS Windows. Frescobaldi offers a comprehensive set of features to enhance the music composition and editing experience, catering to the needs of both novice and experienced users
Highlights
- Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting and automatic completion
- Music view with advanced Point & Click functionality
- MIDI player to proof-listen LilyPond-generated MIDI files
- MIDI capturing to enter music
- Score Wizard to quickly set up a music score
- Snippet Manager to store and apply text snippets, templates, or scripts
- Support for multiple versions of LilyPond with automatic version selection
- Built-in LilyPond documentation browser and user guide
- Smart layout-control functions, such as coloring specific objects in the PDF
- MusicXML, MIDI, and ABC import capabilities
- Customizable user interface with configurable colors, fonts, and keyboard shortcuts
- Multilingual support, translated into over a dozen languages
Features
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