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LilyPond — Notation Reference
This manual provides a reference for all notation that can be produced with LilyPond version 2.25.27. It assumes that the reader is familiar with the material in the Learning Manual. |
Musical notation | ||
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1 Pitches | Writing and display the pitches of notes. | |
2 Rhythms | Writing and displaying the durations of notes. | |
3 Expressive marks | Adding expression to notes. | |
4 Repeats | Repeat music. | |
5 Simultaneous notes | More than one note at once. | |
6 Staff notation | Displaying staves. | |
7 Editorial annotations | Special notation to increase legibility. | |
8 Text | Adding text to scores. | |
Specialist notation | ||
9 Vocal music | Lyrics, operas, and more. | |
10 Keyboard and other multi-staff instruments | Piano, harp, etc. | |
11 Unfretted string instruments | Violin and friends. | |
12 Fretted string instruments | Guitar, Lute, etc. | |
13 Percussion | Drums and friends. | |
14 Wind instruments | Woodwinds, brass, and more. | |
15 Chord notation | Chords and figured bass. | |
16 Contemporary music | Also graphical notation. | |
17 Ancient notation | Mensural music, Gregorian and Kievan chant, etc. | |
18 World music | Non-Western music | |
General input and output | ||
19 Input modes | Note mode, Lyrics mode, Markup mode, etc. | |
20 Input structure | How a LilyPond input file looks like. | |
21 Titles and headers | Also footnotes, table of contents, etc. | |
22 Working with input files | Including files, tagging music, and more. | |
23 Controlling output | Music extraction and skipping, output formats, embedding files in PDF, etc. | |
24 Creating MIDI output | Notation support, dynamics, instruments, channels, and more. | |
25 Extracting musical information | Displaying LilyPond data structures. | |
Spacing issues | ||
26 Page layout | Paper size, fixed and vertical spacing,
\paper variables.
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27 Score layout | Staff size, the \layout block.
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28 Breaks | Line and page breaking. | |
29 Vertical spacing | Spacing and positioning of vertical staves and systems. | |
30 Horizontal spacing | Spacing sections, strict note spacing, and more. | |
31 Fitting music onto fewer pages | Displaying and changing vertical spacing. | |
Changing defaults | ||
32 Tuning output | A first overview. | |
33 Interpretation contexts | Creating and referencing contexts, and more. | |
34 Explaining the Internals Reference | How to find descriptions for grobs, properties, engravers, and more. | |
35 Modifying properties | \set , \override , \tweak , etc.
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36 Useful concepts and properties | How grobs and their properties are classified. | |
Appendices | ||
Appendix A Markup commands | Detailed description of all markup commands. | |
Appendix B Notation manual tables | Tables and charts. | |
Appendix C Cheat sheet | Summary of LilyPond syntax. | |
Appendix D GNU Free Documentation License | License of this document. | |
Appendix E Index |
For more information about how this manual fits with the other documentation, or to read this manual in other formats, see Manuals. If you are missing any manuals, the complete documentation can be found at https://lilypond.org/. |
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