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 2.15.11 released! September 11, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.11. 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 the possibility of a few Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.10 released! September 6, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.10. 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 outstanding Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.
LilyPond 2.15.9 released! August 30, 2011
We are happy to announce the release of LilyPond 2.15.9. This release contains the usual number of bugfixes, and also adds support for MacOS X 10.7.
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 outstanding Critical bugs, this is not the next release candidate.
Release candidate 1 of 2.16 - LilyPond 2.15.8 released! Aug 01, 2011
LilyPond 2.15.8 is out; this is the first release candidate of the upcoming 2.16 stable release. All users are invited to experiment with this version. New features since 2.14.2 are listed in the “Changes” manual on the website section about Development.
There are no known Critical issues with this release. If no Critical bugs are found, then the official 2.16.0 release will be on 08 Aug 2011. If you discover any problems, please send us Bug reports.
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| Introduction | Start here to creating sheet music. | |
| Download | Get LilyPond. | |
| Manuals | Read The Fine Manuals (RTFM). | |
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