From Young Composers

What is Lilypond?

A powerful new feature has been recently added to the wiki. Users now have the ability to create sheet music anywhere on a page through use of a music typesetter named Lilypond. The learning curve is fairly steep, but it is worth taking the time to get to grips with. Take a look at the examples below to see what Lilypond is capable of.

Simple Scale

As a quick template, this is what you need to do in order to create a simple scale using 32nd notes that are slurred. Notice how all notation is between 2 music tags:

<music>
\relative c'
{
c32 (d e f g a b c) d (e f g a b c d e f g a b c d e)
}
</music>

The above code produces the below notation, as follows:

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Music Example 1

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Music Example 2

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