Summary

Frescobaldi is a free and open-source text editor specifically designed for creating and editing LilyPond sheet music files. It aims to be both powerful and easy to use across major operating systems.

Features

• Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting and automatic completion tailored for LilyPond syntax
• Music view with advanced point-and-click interface
• MIDI player to preview LilyPond-generated MIDI files
• MIDI capturing feature for music input
• Score Wizard to quickly set up music scores
• Snippet Manager for storing and inserting text snippets, templates, or scripts
• Support for multiple LilyPond versions with automatic version selection
• Integrated browser for LilyPond documentation and user guide
• Smart layout control functions, including coloring specific PDF objects
• Import capabilities for MusicXML, MIDI, and ABC formats
• Customizable modern user interface with configurable colors, fonts, and keyboard shortcuts
• Multilingual support including Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and others
• Music editing functions such as transposing, rhythm manipulation, language changes for note names, hyphenation of lyrics, easy insertion of musical markings
• Ability to update LilyPond syntax using convert-ly with difference display

Compatibility

Designed to run on Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems.