LilyPond: music notation for everyone
LilyPond is a free piece of software for generating nice musical sheets from specifications written on a text file.
Background
The inspiration for LilyPond came when two befriended musicians got annoyed with the bland and boring look of computer print-outs. Every musician prefers reading beautiful music, so couldn't we programmers solve that printing problem?
LilyPond just does that: it prints music in the best traditions of classical engraving with minimum fuss. Don't waste time on tuning spacing, moving around symbols, or shaping slurs. Impress friends and colleagues with sharp sheet music!
Pretty cool uh?
I tried Lilypond for a little, it's pretty impressive, and the language used for creating the tablatures didn't seem too hard to master (it'd be really cool to create that on-the-fly while using Impromptu). The how-to page gives a crash course on how to create good-looking music, such as how to express notes and durations:
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2013
paper Citations and Annotations in Classics: Old Problems and New Perspectives
Collaborative Annotation in Shared Environments: Metadata, vocabularies and techniques in the Digital Humanities (workshop co-located with ACM DocEng 2013 Conference), Florence, Sep 2013.
2012
NeDiMaH workshop on ontology based annotation, held in conjunction with Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany, Jul 2012.
2011
paper Ontological Requirements for Annotation and Navigation of Philosophical Resources
Synthese, Volume 182, Number 2, Springer, Jan 2011.
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