LilyPond is a free, open-source music notation application that runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, and is "devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible." It is also highly customizable, allowing users to re-assign notes/pitches to different positions on the staff, modify note head shapes, and change the line pattern of staves, among other things. This makes it possible to use LilyPond to create sheet music in TwinNote, and to translate existing music from traditional notation into TwinNote.

Note that LilyPond has a text-based interface rather than a graphical user interface (but see Shikkers List ).

This is a screen-capture image of some music typset in TwinNote using LilyPond:

Here is a LilyPond text file customized to generate sheet music in TwinNote, and the PDF file that LilyPond generated from it:

TwinNote Demo – LilyPond file (.ly)

TwinNote Demo – PDF file

Here is an example of the traditional English fiddle tune Swinging on a Gate shown in both TwinNote and traditional music notation using LilyPond:

Swinging on a Gate – LilyPond file (.ly)

Swinging on a Gate – PDF file

Further documentation on using LilyPond with TwinNote and other alternative notation systems is available on the LilyPond page of the Music Notation Project Wiki.

Please contact us if you are interested in using LilyPond with TwinNote. If there is a piece of music you would like to see in TwinNote, feel free to contact us and we may be able to create it for you. See Sheet Music for more details.