Frescobaldi

Latest news: December 26th, 2019: Frescobaldi 3.1 is available!

January 4th, 2020: Frescobaldi 3.1.1 is available.

Easter, 2020: Frescobaldi 3.1.2 is available, with lots of bug fixes on Mac OS X!

Releases: Stable: 3.1.2 (Easter, 2020, Changes, Download)

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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.

Nederlandse versie | Last modified: april 13, 2020