Frescobaldi (software)

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Development status stable		Written in Python

Stable release 2.19.0 / April 22, 2016; 10 months ago (2016-04-22) Repository github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi Operating system Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac Type Scorewriter, integrated development environment

Frescobaldi is an editor for LilyPond music files. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is free software, freely available under the GNU General Public License. It is designed to run on all major operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows). It is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi, an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.

In April 2009, Frescobaldi won a "HotPick" award in Linux Format. In May 2009, TuxRadar listed it as one of "100 open source gems".

Frescobaldi is written in Python and uses PyQt4 for its user interface.

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

Powerful Score Wizard to quickly set up 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 help

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 and Polish

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

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