NAME

ly-fu - play or display lilypond snippets

SYNOPSIS

$ export MIDI_EDITOR=timidity
$ export SCORE_VIEWER=xpdf
$ ly-fu --instrument=banjo c des ees c des bes c aes
$ ly-fu  -i=trumpet --open "c8 g'4 c,8 g'4 c,8 g'2"
$ echo c e g | ly-fu -

DESCRIPTION

Plays and possibly displays lilypond snippets entered at the command line. The MIDI_EDITOR environment variable should be set to a program that can play MIDI files, and the SCORE_VIEWER optionally set to a PDF viewer. (Or edit the source code as necessary.)

http://www.lilypond.org/ and in particular the Learning and Notation manuals should be consulted to understand the lilypond syntax.

OPTIONS

This script currently supports the following command line switches:

--absolute

Assume lilypond absolute notation.

--instrument=instrument

Set MIDI instrument (see lilypond docs and ZSH compdef script).

--layout

Save the MIDI and other various files (they are unlinked by default).

--open

Show the score via the SCORE_VIEWER program.

--partial=lilypond fragment

A lilypond fragment played once at the beginning.

--relative=note

Specify what note the input is relative to.

--repeats=count

How many times to repeat the (non-partial) input.

--silent

Do not play the MIDI.

--sleep=seconds

Kluge sleep before unlinking temporary files (if SCORE_VIEWER slow, or so forth).

--tempo=tempo

What the tempo is (in quarter notes, e.g. 120 or the like).

--verbose

Show output from lilypond and the MIDI player.

FILES

ZSH completion script available in the zsh-compdef directory of the App::MusicTools distribution.

BUGS

Reporting Bugs

If the bug is in the latest version, send a report to the author. Patches that fix problems or add new features are welcome.

http://github.com/thrig/App-MusicTools

Known Issues

STDERR hidden by default, so if you feed lilypond bad input, you will not see or hear anything.

SEE ALSO

http://www.lilypond.org/

AUTHOR

Jeremy Mates

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2012 by Jeremy Mates

This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.16 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.