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Lilypond to MusicXML to Sibelius
from a terminal on your mac or linux box:
pip install python-ly
ly musicxml myscore.ly > myscore.musicxml
more information on ly:
http://python-ly.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command.html#commands
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Is Lilypond actively developed? Will the format become obsolete?
There are no commercial developers listed for LilyPond right now. That means that you cannot reliably throw money at a particular problem in order to make it go away while relying on the expertise of ...
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Lilypond is not aligning lyrics correctly
It turns out the Word document I copied the lyrics from contained some non-breaking spaces; these don't stand out in the Lilypond editor* but the compiler doesn't recognize them as word separators. It ...
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Does anyone actually compose using Lilypond? And do people usually compose by line or bar/beat?
Lilypond is really meant to be a tool that engraves nice scores and that's it -- it conforms to the "Unix Philosophy" in the sense that it tries to do one thing (albeit very complex), do it ...
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Time signature inconsistent
The notes in the upper staff are tuplets. As an aid towards your eventual goal, here is some sample code to create what you're looking for:
\version "2.19.82"
musicA = \relative c' {
\key cis \...
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LilyPond - how to write a basic makefile
Invocation
make will search the current directory for a file named Makefile or makefile, so it's often simplest to name it one of these two choices and then invoke with the simple command:
$ make
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<<>> vs {} in LilyPond
It’s really just what these each mean in and of themselves that counts:
In LilyPond input files, music is represented by music expressions. A single note is a music expression.
(source)
Ergo, a'4 is ...
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Can Lilypond change MIDI instruments during a piece?
Fortunately there is (as you've noted) midi instruments for both regular trumpet and muted trumpet.
You can change between them just by placing:
\set Staff.midiInstrument = #"trumpet" or
\...
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How can I label staffs with the parts' purpose
You can use rehearsal marks.
So just add something like this to your code:
\mark\markup{\bold\box "Verse 1"}
You'll get something like:
If you really want the rehearsal mark to appear ...
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LilyPond play pitches
LilyPond is not so much a notation editor as a notation compiler, so you're not going to get live feedback. It's sort of like setting everything up and hitting "go" each time you want to see ...
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Lilypond: natural+flat accidental in front of the note
This might be what you are looking for:
\tweak Accidental.restore-first ##t
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/snippets/pitches#pitches-force-a-cancellation-natural-before-accidentals
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Lilypond first alternative has only one note
Doh.
I omitted the outer curly braces around the two alternatives. The corrected version should be:
\relative c' {
\key f \major
\repeat volta 2 { c4 c c c |}
\alternative { { d d d d |} {e e ...
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How to write a slur to nothing in LilyPond?
The easiest way to achieve this is to insert empty chords with <> that catch the open slur or tie. The following code ...
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\new Staff {
<< { f'1( <>) } \\ { \voiceThree e'...
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How to change the symbol of time signature in Lilypond
Lilypond has the great ability to make anything look like anything. Really, any object has a property stencil, which tells Lilypond how the object should be rendered, and it can be overridden by ...
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Lilypond: define MIDI output file name
You're on the right track for sheet music title and midi file title, but you should use \bookOutputName to control the resulting filename:
\header {
title = "File title"
midititle = &...
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Increase space between lines of a staff in LilyPond
I believe what you want to adjust is the system-system-spacing. It has four elements that you can adjust, and it's not the most intuitive of settings. Here's what it looks like with the default ...
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How to place finger numbers below staff in LilyPond?
Just specify whether you want them up or down for each note, using ^ or _ instead of -.
\version "2.19.83"
\score {
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff a'1-1
\new Staff \relative c, {
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Printing all accidentals with Lilypond
Lilypond has several options to automatically display accidentals. I'm not sure which one suits you best, but perhaps one of these:
teaching
This rule is intended for students, and makes it easy to ...
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Multiple staccato dots on minim with tremolo repeat in Lilypond
One possible solution could be based on this snippet for multiple tonguing.
\version "2.20.0"
tongue =
#(define-music-function (parser location dots) (integer?)
#{
\tweak stencil
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Why is lilypond treating this measure with 3⅓ beats?
If you compile your code separately, you will see that it's OK (for instance, see a lilybin).
So the problem must be elsewhere. Most likely, there are mistakes in the preceding music, and they "...
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Why is lilypond treating this measure with 3⅓ beats?
Note that 5 beats and one single quarter triplet are not 5⅓, but 5⅔.
Thus the measure does not in fact fit 4/3, but it would need 17/12. This results in missalignment in the following measures. So if ...
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lilypond - hide tuplet numbers
If you want to get rid of anything in Lilypond, two commands can make themselves useful: \hide and \omit. Both of them get a parameter telling what should be got rid of — in this case, a TupletNumber. ...
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Lilypond tuplets
Of course there is. Why don't you just write what you see? \tuplet 3/2 { e'8 b8 g2 } will do the job and give the following result:
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Da Capo in Lilypond
As alephzero noted you have to set the visibility of the mark. Because these kind of marks frequently need the same treatment you can setup your own commands for them so you don't have to remember the ...
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