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Frescobaldi

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Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the General Public License.

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  • Windows
  • Linux
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    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
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    41 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Audio & MusicDevelopment

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  •  156 Forks
  •  489 Open Issues
  •   Updated Feb 17, 2025 
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Frescobaldi was added to AlternativeTo by Graziella on Nov 27, 2013 and this page was last updated Jul 14, 2024.
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What is Frescobaldi?

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the General Public License.

Features:

Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting and automatic completion Music view with advanced Point & Click Midi player to proof-listen LilyPond-generated MIDI files Midi capturing to enter music Powerful Score Wizard to quickly setup a music score Snippet Manager to store and apply text snippets, templates or scripts Use multiple versions of LilyPond, automatically selects the correct version Built-in LilyPond documentation browser and built-in User Guide Smart layout-control functions like coloring specific objects in the PDF MusicXML, Midi and ABC import Modern user interface with configurable colors, fonts and keyboard shortcuts Translated into the following languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Galician, Turkish, Polish, Brazillian Portugese and Ukrainian.

Music functions:

Transpose music Change music from relative to absolute and vice versa Change the language used for note names Change the rhythm (double, halve, add/remove dots, copy, paste) etc Hyphenate lyrics using word-processor hyphenation dictionaries Add spanners, dynamics, articulation easily using the Quick Insert panel Update LilyPond syntax using convert-ly, with display of differences

Frescobaldi is designed to run on all major operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X and MS Windows). It is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.

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