Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music editor with built-in MIDI player and PDF preview. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use.
| Tags | Text Editors Integrated Development Environments (IDE) multimedia Sound/Audio LilyPond |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | Python 2.6 Python 2.7 Qt4 portmidi poppler |
| Translations | Dutch Turkish Spanish Italian German French Czech Polish Russian Galician |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release fixes a critical bug which prohibited Frescobaldi from starting properly when the option "open files in running instance" was enabled on Windows systems and the user's username had non-ASCII characters in it. Cut-and-assign has been fixed. A new Ukrainian translation has been added.


Release Notes: New features have been added, such as code folding and editing a single line of music when shift-clicking a note in the Music View. It is possible to synchronize the Music View with the text cursor so that it always scrolls to the region where the text cursor is. There are many improvements as well: copied images from Music View now carry correct DPI information, autocomplete also looks for variable definitions in \include files, and the MIDI player follows program and controller changes when the time slider is dragged.


Release Notes: A new command View->Line Numbers has been added. Opening a large session with many documents is much faster. Missing icon theme index files in the source tarball have been fixed. A Python snippet can define a main() function with more power than just setting the 'text' variable. The user interface no longer blocks anymore when LilyPond is started to read some information (which, especially on Windows, could take a long time when it is the first LilyPond run), and the built-in manual now also documents the settings and session dialogs.


Release Notes: A pager for the music view has been added. The Home key now has "smart" behaviour. Shift+Return no longer enters a line separator anymore, which could cause incorrect point and click locations. A new Brazilian translation has been added. Various bugs have been fixed.


Release Notes: Improvements have been made and some bugs, especially on Windows, have been fixed.
Recent comments
23 Nov 2011 21:43
You can move the tabs, if you enable that in the Editor component settings!
Regarding the double quotation marks: does the font you're using have them?
26 Jun 2011 11:59
Switching from Mac to Linux I tried out Frescobaldi as a Lilypond environment. I really thank the developers for such a well thought-out tool which from my point of view so far leaves almost nothing uncovered. It seems to be quite perfect and is very helpful in every respect. The only thing I miss is that you could change the order of the tabs in the editor by dragging them, when you have several documents open (working on a score and separate parts for instance), but this is really a minor issue. Ah, and one other little thing: inserting double quotation marks does not work...
Bravissimo!!