LilyPond, an other approach of musical engraving

LilyPond is a software of musical engraving, intended to produce scores with optimal quality.This project brings to the computerized music the typographical esthetics of traditional engraving. LilyPond is a free software attached to GNU project.

The inspiration for LilyPond comes from two musicians who had wearied insipid and tedious aspect musical partitions produced with a computer. All do the musicians prefer read beautiful music xcores, why thus the programmers wouldn't develop a software able to produce this ?

It is precisely what LilyPond does: this software engraves music according to the best of the typographical tradition with a minimum of do-it-yourself. Do not waste time to adjust spacing, to move symbols one by one or to reorganize slurs. You will impress your friends and colleagues with neat partitions!

More information on http://lilypond.org/website/introduction.html

And the site of Valentin Villenave, impassioned of LilyPond : http://valentin.villenave.info/-LilyPond-

The Mutopia project

• DigiClassic scores (Conductor, parts and study format) participate to the Mutopia project which aiming at online Internet old scores fallen into the public domain, with a print quality problems rarely achieved so far.
• The scores are taken from the original website http://imslp.org/ , wich includes nearly 60,000 works and more than 220,000 free scores (dec. 2012).
• DigiClassic uses free software LilyPond for a print quality worthy of the engraving masters of the nineteenth century.
• The scores are as faithful as possible to the originals. However, these old scores often show slight differences or inconsistencies, which are corrected as logically as possible(phrasing, dynamics, sometimes mistakes on notes or durations, indication or not of tuplet numbers).
• The quotations in parts also come (if available) from original scores, which entrusts the book an excellent read.
• The differences between the parts and the conducting score are kept, optimized, either for the player, or for the conductor.
• Despite numerous re-readings, errors may exist in copies. If in doubt, check the scores on the IMSLP website, references to the publisher and number plate being provided with each score.
• If you find any improvements, please mail your comments and advice to info@espace-midi.com