Frescobaldi

What Frescobaldi is

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor for writing and working with scores. Its text editor provides syntax highlighting and automatic completion, while a music view links score elements with their text source through Point & Click. A Score Wizard helps set up scores, and the Snippet Manager keeps reusable text, templates, or scripts. The program can play LilyPond-generated MIDI files and capture MIDI for music entry. It imports MusicXML, MIDI, and ABC, and includes tools for transposition, rhythm changes, note-name language changes, and lyric hyphenation using word-processor dictionaries. Smart layout controls include coloring selected objects in a PDF. Users can configure colors, fonts, and keyboard shortcuts, and Frescobaldi supports multiple LilyPond versions with automatic version selection. It is available for Linux, macOS, Windows, and the web, with desktop deployment listed. Frescobaldi is Free Software under the GNU General Public License and costs nothing. The download page instructs macOS and Windows users to install LilyPond; the Flatpak package includes LilyPond and running dependencies.