Denemo

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Denemo
Denemo 0.7.5 under GNU/Linux
Developer:	Matthew Hiller, Adam Tee
Latest release:	0.7.6 / December 27, 2006
OS:	GNU/Linux
Use:	Scorewriter
License:	GPL
Website:	http://www.denemo.sourceforge.net/index.html

Denemo is a free software graphical interface for music notation, mainly to GNU LilyPond, a program for engraving musical scores. It uses GTK+ 2.0 and works on GNU/Linux, although there are ports to Darwin and Microsoft Windows.

Denemo helps prepare notation for publishing with Lilypond. Denemo does not strive to display all notation graphically or be the most complete graphic environment. Therefore, Denemo is not to be considered a complete WYSIWYG editor for music notation (like Finale or Sibelius), but rather a visual interface for speedy note entry in the LilyPond language. Its main purpose is to quickly prepare scores for final editing with LilyPond or ABC music notation.

Denemo is very keyboard centric with all music notation functions accessible via keyboard shortcuts. The design philosophy is that computer music notation can be faster when one only uses a keyboard, rather than keyboard and mouse. Once learned Denemo can be an intuitive and speedy way of adding music notation. The current stable version of Denemo is 0.7.5.

It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

[edit] External links

• Denemo homepage on Sourceforge.net
• Windows port