LilyPond... music notation for everyone

What is LilyPond?
LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. LilyPond is free software and part of the GNU Project.
Read more in our Introduction!
Lilypond 2.16.0 released! August 24, 2012
We are proud to announce the release of GNU LilyPond 2.16.0. LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
Many improvements have been made in the past year since the previous main stable version. A few major improvements are:
- Support for kievan square notation
- User and programming interfaces have greatly improved
- Music functions have become quite more versatile
A full list of new features is given in:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/changes/index.html
Happy music typesetting! LilyPond 2.16 was brought to you by...
Main development team:
Bertrand Bordage, Trevor Daniels, Phil Holmes, Ian Hulin, Reinhold Kainhofer, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kulp, Werner Lemberg, John Mandereau, Patrick McCarty, Joe Neeman, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Graham Percival, Mark Polesky, Neil Puttock, Mike Solomon, Carl Sorensen, Francisco Vila, Valentin Villenave, Jan Warchoł
Programming contributors:
Aleksandr Andreev, Sven Axelsson, Peter Chubb, Karin Hoethker, Mark Hohl, Justin Ohmie, Benkő Pál, Julien Rioux, Patrick Schmidt, Adam Spiers, Heikki Taurainen, Piers Titus van der Torren, Jan-Peter Voigt, Janek Warchol
Documentation contributors:
James Lowe, Pavel Roskin, Alberto Simoes, Stefan Weil
Bug squad:
Colin Campbell, Eluze, Phil Holmes, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer, James Lowe
Support:
Colin Campbell, Christian Hitz, Phil Holmes
Translation contributors:
Jean-Charles Malahieude, Till Paala, Yoshiki Sawada
Lilypond 2.15.95 released! August 11, 2012
We are excited to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.95. With this release, development on version 2.15 is frozen for the upcoming 2.16 stable release and only open to bug fixes.
All users are urged to try this version to ensure the best quality of the upcoming stable release. If you discover any problems, please send us Bug reports.
New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about Development.
LilyPond 2.15.42 released! August 02, 2012
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.42. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes.
It is strongly recommended that normal users do not use this release, and instead use the stable 2.14 version. Please note that due to a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.
The LilyPond Report #27. August 2, 2012
The LilyPond Report is back, with some interesting insights on new Scheme-related features recently added by our community’s only paid developer David Kastrup (thanks to your continuing donations). Also to be found in this issue are an overview of some lesser-known LilyPond companion projects, and a handful of more shallow factoids.
Come read LilyPond Report 27 now; comments and contributions are warmly encouraged!
(Old news)
Introduction | Start here to creating sheet music. | |
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Manuals | Read The Fine Manuals (RTFM). | |
Community | Contact other users. |
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