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Linuxmusician.com Interviews LilyPond Authors

Posted by michael on from the every-good-boy-does-fine dept.

jcn writes "Chris Cannam talks to the authors of one of the best-known and most ambitious music programs for Linux, the LilyPond score engraving system. Unlike other typesetting software like Finale or Sibelius, LilyPond is not a score editor, it aims to use simple textual description of the music and turn it into the highest possible quality output, automatically. Han-Wen says: In my opinion, any file format that claims to be universal should have two properties: it should have an expressive structure, so other formats can be expressed in it, and it should be as lean as possible, so that converting from other formats amounts to removing information. I think that MusicXML fits neither. Ouch."

4 of 227 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why is it by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

    . . . simple screenshots. . .

    [username@hostname loginname]$

    YMMV

    KFG

  2. Re:Why is it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here's one: Linux Boot Screen Shot

  3. Re:Yeah, right by 110010001000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because the software is free/open source! As you know, that is more important than being useful.

  4. Re:Article Repost by Migrant+Programmer · · Score: 2, Funny

    These are eclectic composers: they blend many musical styles (ranging from medieval hoketus via french baroque to gay nigger music) into new pieces.

    Wow, where can I get the CD?

    Sigh, gotta love blind positive moderation of copyright violation. I'm sure there's more interesting changes in the "repost." That's two so far!

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