From Denemo - Free and Open Music Notation Editor

... music notation for everyone .

LilyPond is an automated engraving system by Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen and others. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files. It is Free Software (‘open source’). It prints music in the best traditions of classical engraving with minimum fuss. Don't waste time on tuning spacing, moving around symbols, or shaping slurs. Impress friends and colleagues with sharp sheet music!

• Visit the LilyPond Website

Denemo and LilyPond

You can use LilyPond standalone by writing ly-syntax to a textfile and let it convert afterwards while LilyPond does all the formating itself.

However we, the Denemo Team, think while the output is really great the way of entering notes in a non-native form is not enough. This approach works fine as long as the input-signs and the output-signs are the same (see TeX) but in music the native signs are notation while you have to enter plain text in LilyPond. Thats why Denemo exists in first place, to make it easier to just enter notes in its native form.

LilyPond on Denemo.org

It is possible to directly render LilyPond-code on this website. We use MediaWiki's LilyPond-Extension. A full documentation for the Extension can be found on its own website.

This example should produce just a line of music. Unfortunatly the extension is broken and shows a complete (eventually mostly blank) page.

<lilypond>f, d f a d f e d cis a cis e a g f e </lilypond> Test