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What is LilyPond?

LilyPond is a compiled system: it is run on a text file describing the music. The resulting output is viewed on-screen or printed. In some ways, LilyPond is more similar to a programming language than graphical score editing software.

You do not write music by dragging notes from a graphical toolbar and placing them on a dynamically refreshing score; you write music by typing text. This text is interpreted (or “compiled”) by LilyPond, which produces beautifully engraved sheet music.

People accustomed to graphical user interfaces might need to learn a new way of working, but the results are definitely worth it!

What is a Wiki?

Wiki is Hawaiian for “quick”. A wiki can not only be viewed, but also edited, either by registered users or in many cases also anonymously, depending on the configuration of the wiki. It works on the same principle as the well-known online encyclopedia WikiPedia and is based on the freely available software MediaWiki.

What is Mediawiki? What is the difference between Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki? Here you can find help for editing in this Wiki, and here help for editing in a Wiki in general.

Wikipedia uses LilyPond.

What is the LilyPond Snippet Repository

The snippet repository contains (relatively short) samples of LilyPond code for certain tasks.

This samples should be well documented and compile as standalone.

Use the search box to look for snippets or scroll through the lists to the right

Most snippets are set up to use the current stable LilyPond release 2.24 (the intended version is always shown in the snippet). To use a newer version, don't forget to call convert-ly on the snippet since the syntax might have changed!

If you use a higher version of LilyPond then you must include the full version as <lilypond version="2.25.31">

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• (Correctly aligned) different dispersions of text in different stanzas
• A function to repeatedly print a given pattern with different notes
• Abbreviating bass note changes
• Abbreviations for articulations
• Absolute positioning of markup elements (laying out tables)
• Acciaccatura markup
• Accidental adjustments for single-voice polyphony
• Accordion discant symbols
• Accordion register symbols
• Add wings to all repeat barlines (simple version)
• Adding a QR code
• Adding a figured bass above or below the notes
• Adding a laissezVibrer tie to only one note of a chord (obsolete in 2.23)
• Adding a special post event function to implement precise MIDI velocity value control
• Adding accidentals to a trillspanner
• Adding ambitus per voice
• Adding an extra staff
• Adding an extra staff (2)
• Adding an extra staff at a line break
• Adding an ottava marking to a single voice
• Adding articulation marks using Scheme (advanced)
• Adding articulation marks using Scheme (simple)
• Adding articulations from a template
• Adding augmentation dots
• Adding automatic octaves to a melody
• Adding bar lines to ChordNames context
• Adding beams, slurs, ties, etc., when using tuplet and non-tuplet rhythms
• Adding double and triple tonguing indications for woodwind
• Adding drum parts
• Adding extra fingering with Scheme
• Adding fingerings (or string numbers or stroke fingerings) outside of the music code
• Adding fingerings to a score
• Adding fingerings to a score using markup objects
• Adding fingerings to chords
• Adding fingerings to tablatures
• Adding indicators to staves which get split after a break
• Adding instrument name and clef change to cue notes
• Adding line between fingerings or a glissando between nonadjacent notes
• Adding line breaks in MIDI Karaoke lyrics without disrupting printed score
• Adding links to objects
• Adding markup to part of a syllable connected with lyric ties (~)
• Adding markups in a tablature
• Adding metronome ticks to a piece of music
• Adding notes
• Adding notes to the notes of a melody
• Adding or modifying Script articulations
• Adding orchestral cues to a vocal score
• Adding parentheses around an expressive mark or chordal note
• Adding punctuation to the end of an extender in melismata
• Adding rests
• Adding the current date to a score
• Adding the current date to the tagline
• Adding timing marks to long glissandi
• Adding volta brackets to additional staves
• Additional voices to avoid collisions
• Adjusting figured bass alteration glyphs
• Adjusting grace note spacing
• Adjusting slur positions vertically
• Adjusting the shape of falls and doits
• Adjusting the spacing of full measure notes
• Adjusting vertical positioning of lyric hyphens
• Adjusting vertical spacing of lyrics
• Affecting items only on the left or right of a line break (BarLines, KeySignatures, Clefs, etc.)
• Aiken head thin variant noteheads
• Airy tone
• Aligning and centering instrument names
• Aligning and centering instrument names (advanced)
• Aligning bar numbers
• Aligning columns from different markups
• Aligning marks with various notation objects
• Aligning objects created with the \mark command (obsolete in 2.23)
• Aligning syllables with melisma
• Aligning text marks to notes
• Aligning the ends of hairpins to NoteColumn directions
• Allowing fingerings to be printed inside the staff
• Alphabetically sorted index
• Altering the length of beamed stems
• Altering the number of stems in a beam
• Altering the shape of a default slur with a list of offsets
• Altering the shape of a default slur with a list of offsets (revised)
• Alternate lyrics context for song sheets
• Alternate lyrics context for song sheets (alternate)
• Alternating beam directions
• Alternative bar numbering
• Alternative breve notes
• Ambitus
• Ambitus after key signature
• Ambitus with multiple voices
• Analysis brackets
• Analysis brackets above the staff
• Analysis brackets with labels
• Ancient accidentals
• Ancient fonts
• Ancient headword
• Ancient notation template – modern transcription of Gregorian music
• Ancient time signatures
• Anglican psalm template
• Appending a note to the tuplet text (using a scheme wrapper function)
• Applying note head styles (shapes) based on pitch or note name
• Applying note head styles depending on the step of the scale
• Applying tweaks to one voice in \partCombine
• Appoggiatura or grace note before a bar line
• Arabic chant
• Arabic improvisation
• Arpeggio bracket
• Arpeggios in polyphonic music
• Arranging separate lyrics on a single line
• Arrow between measures
• Arrow notation and transposition for quarter tones
• Arrows
• Arrows-line function with text spanners
• Articulation
• Associate drumnotes with custom NoteHead stencils
• Associating lyrics with voices in \ChoirStaff
• Asymmetric slurs
• Autochange music with a different pitch
• Automatic beam subdivisions
• Automatic beams two per two in 4/4 or 2/2 time signature
• Automatic click track
• Automatic fretboards barré
• Automatic scaling of cadenza-like patterns in metered music
• Automatic slash for slashedGrace and acciaccatura
• Automatic spacing behavior
• Automatically adding fingering diagrams for tin whistle
• Automatically adjusting lyric placement for natural note spacing
• Automatically change durations
• Automatically changing the stem direction of the middle note based on the melody
• Automatically coloring grobs to indicate when their direction has been manually set
• Automatically convert beams into slurs to indicate melisma
• Automatically creating a drone part from a given melody
• Automatically display key names above key signatures
• Avoiding collision in single staff polyphony
• Avoiding collisions with chord fingerings
• Bach's Accent steigend and Accent fallend
• Background color
• Baroque Slash ornaments between chords
• Baroque lute tablature
• Basic Roman numeral and figured bass analysis
• Basic grace echo purger
• Beam endings in Score context
• Beam grouping with non-standard time signatures
• Beam nibs
• Beams across line breaks
• Beat hints for rhythm
• BendAfter supports microtonal bends
• Big time signatures
• Blanking staff lines using the \whiteout command
• Bold tenuto
• Book parts
• Box around notes
• Bracketed accidentals
• Bracketed or parenthesized alternative KeySignature
• Bracketed passages
• Brackets indicating “Hauptstimme” and “Nebenstimme”
• Breaking horizontal alignment of dynamics and textscripts
• Breaking vertical alignment of dynamics and textscripts
• Breathing signs
• Broken TextSpan for gradual tempo changes on page turns
• Broken crescendo hairpin
• Caesura (“railtracks”) with fermata
• Center lyric syllables (ignoring punctuation)
• Center text below hairpin dynamics
• Centered measure numbers (obsolete in 2.23)
• Centering a stencil on another stencil
• Centering markup on note heads automatically
• Centering multi-measure rests
• Changing MIDI output to one channel per voice
• Changing \flageolet mark size
• Changing \partCombine texts
• Changing a single note’s size in a chord
• Changing beam knee gap
• Changing beam thickness and spacing
• Changing breathe marks to markup text
• Changing chord separator
• Changing form of multi-measure rests
• Changing fret orientations
• Changing ottava text
• Changing properties for individual grobs
• Changing stanza fonts
• Changing stems direction without affecting rests
• Changing text and spanner styles for text dynamics
• Changing the ambitus gap
• Changing the appearance of a slur from solid to dotted or dashed
• Changing the appearance of forced, cautionary and suggested accidentals
• Changing the appearance of the number of Clef Modifier
• Changing the breath mark symbol
• Changing the default bar lines
• Changing the default text font family
• Changing the font to small caps
• Changing the interval of lines on the stave
• Changing the number of augmentation dots per note
• Changing the number of lines in a staff
• Changing the positions of figured bass alterations
• Changing the size of a staff with a music function
• Changing the size of layout objects
• Changing the size of note heads
• Changing the size of woodwind diagrams
• Changing the staff size
• Changing the tempo without a metronome mark
• Changing the text for sustain markings
• Changing the tuplet number
• Changing the width of ledger lines
• Changing the width of ledger lines for a group of notes
• Changing time signatures inside a polymetric section using \scaleDurations
• Chant or psalm notation
• ChordNames in a ChordMarkup-context
• Chord changes for fretboards
• Chord glissando in tablature
• Chord name exceptions
• Chord name major7
• Chord names, lyrics and blank staff
• Chord names alternative
• Chord names and lyrics without a staff
• Chord with ties and interval bigger than a fifth (tie fix)
• Chords entry - simultaneous notes
• Chords headword
• Chords with one normal note head and multiple small note heads
• Chords with stretched fingering for FretBoards and TabVoice
• Circle of fifths
• Circled numbers for live electronics
• Circled pattern markup
• Clarinet fingering chart and tablatures
• Clef, key and time signature in square brackets
• Clef change at the beginning of a piece
• Clef change at the beginning of a piece (alternative)
• Clefs
• Clefs can be transposed by arbitrary amounts
• Clip systems
• Clusters
• Coda ahead of a line of its own
• Color gradient using Postscript
• Colored arrow
• Colored arrow (2)
• Colored arrows (alternative method)
• Colored background
• Colored background for markup text
• Colored boxes around / behind notes
• Colored notes with black outlines, colors based on note name and alteration
• Coloring elements of notation
• Coloring grobs and notational elements using a sophisticated music function
• Coloring individual staff lines
• Coloring notes depending on their pitch
• Coloring notes depending on their pitch (2)
• Coloring objects
• Coloring staves
• Coloring successive intervals
• Combining a time signature glyph and a default time signature
• Combining beam and slur in one keystroke
• Combining dynamics with markup texts
• Combining dynamics with markup texts (2)
• Combining pedal notes with clef changes
• Combining two parts on the same staff
• Compare and adjust parts with different volta settings to create a score
• Compilation error on music overflow
• Complex compound time signatures
• Complex time signatures
• Compound time signatures
• Conducting signs, measure grouping signs
• Connecting groups of beamed notes with a single beam
• Consecutive tremolos
• Consistently left-aligned bar numbers (obsolete in 2.23)
• Contemporary glissando
• Contemporary glissando (2)
• Controlling beam damping
• Controlling formatting of prefatory items
• Controlling of the pitch range in a score
• Controlling spanner visibility after a line break
• Controlling the appearance of tremolo slashes
• Controlling the placement of chord fingerings
• Controlling the vertical ordering of scripts
• Controlling the vertical ordering of scripts (2)
• Controlling tuplet bracket visibility
• Cow and ride bell example
• Creating a Schenker graph
• Creating a custom clef glyph
• Creating a dashed “laissez vibrer”
• Creating a delayed turn
• Creating a sequence of notes on various pitches
• Creating a short ossia section with lyrics
• Creating a “tacet al fine” rest
• Creating arbitrary lines following notes across staves
• Creating arpeggios across notes in different voices
• Creating blank staves
• Creating chord rhythm guides
• Creating clarinet fingering symbol
• Creating cross-staff arpeggios in a piano staff
• Creating cross-staff arpeggios in other contexts
• Creating custom dynamics in MIDI output
• Creating custom key signatures
• Creating double-digit fingerings
• Creating fret diagrams with chord names but no staff/staves using fret diagram markup
• Creating guitar scales on fretboards
• Creating harp glissandi
• Creating jazz-style repeats
• Creating keyboard diagrams with chords or scales
• Creating metronome marks in markup mode
• Creating music sheet with blank piano staves
• Creating music with Scheme (music box)
• Creating simultaneous rehearsal marks (obsolete in 2.23)
• Creating slurs across voices
• Creating text spanners
• Creating “real” parenthesized dynamics
• Cross-staff arpeggio brackets
• Cross-staff chords – beaming problems workaround
• Cross-staff stems
• Cross-staff tremolos
• Crossing staves
• Cue with lyrics
• Curly bracket with variable length (path)
• Curly end barline
• Curved arrow
• Custodes
• Custom clef and incipit spacing for Gregorian chant
• Custom tuning and MIDI rendering
• Customising note heads
• Customized Italian-style chords
• Customized accidentals
• Customized drum notation in printed and MIDI output
• Customizing chord symbols – global
• Customizing fretboard fret diagrams
• Customizing individual staff lines
• Customizing markup fret diagrams
• Customizing the chord grid style
• Customizing the no-chord symbol
• Customizing the position and number of dots in repeat sign bar lines
• Damping sign using a balloon help
• Damping sign using a glissando
• Dark mode sheet music
• Dashed individual staff lines
• Dashed slurs indicating optional slurs between lyric lines
• Decrescendo
• Default direction of stems on the center line of the staff
• Define shorthand for text spanner, like rit. or rall.
• Defining a custom staff context
• Defining an engraver in Scheme: ambitus engraver
• Demo of MIDI instruments
• Demonstrating LilyPond support for figured bass
• Demonstrating all \header fields
• Demonstrating the power and flexibility of the \markup function
• Different font size settings for instrumentName and shortInstrumentName
• Differently colored note heads in one staff
• Direction of merged ‘fa’ shape note heads
• Disabling the TAB symbol at the beginning of a TabStaff
• Display bracket with only one staff in a system
• Display non-English chord names

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