LilyPond Notation Reference: 1. Musical notation

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# 1. Musical notation

This chapter explains how to create musical notation.

1.1 Pitches |  | Writing and display the pitches of notes.
1.2 Rhythms |  | Writing and displaying the durations of notes.
1.3 Expressive marks |  | Adding expression to notes.
1.4 Repeats |  | Repeat music.
1.5 Simultaneous notes |  | More than one note at once.
1.6 Staff notation |  | Displaying staves.
1.7 Editorial annotations |  | Special notation to increase legibility.
1.8 Text |  | Adding text to scores.

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#### LilyPond — Notation Reference

- 1. Musical notation
  - 1.1 Pitches
  - 1.2 Rhythms
  - 1.3 Expressive marks
  - 1.4 Repeats
  - 1.5 Simultaneous notes
  - 1.6 Staff notation
  - 1.7 Editorial annotations
  - 1.8 Text
- 2. Specialist notation
  - 2.1 Vocal music
  - 2.2 Keyboard and other multi-staff instruments
  - 2.3 Unfretted string instruments
  - 2.4 Fretted string instruments
  - 2.5 Percussion
  - 2.6 Wind instruments
  - 2.7 Chord notation
  - 2.8 Contemporary music
  - 2.9 Ancient notation
  - 2.10 World music
- 3. General input and output
  - 3.1 Input structure
  - 3.2 Titles and headers
  - 3.3 Working with input files
  - 3.4 Controlling output
  - 3.5 MIDI output
- 4. Spacing issues
  - 4.1 Page layout
  - 4.2 Score layout
  - 4.3 Breaks
  - 4.4 Vertical spacing
  - 4.5 Horizontal spacing
  - 4.6 Fitting music onto fewer pages
- 5. Changing defaults
  - 5.1 Interpretation contexts
  - 5.2 Explaining the Internals Reference
  - 5.3 Modifying properties
  - 5.4 Useful concepts and properties
  - 5.5 Advanced tweaks
  - 5.6 Using music functions
- A. Notation manual tables
  - A.1 Chord name chart
  - A.2 Common chord modifiers
  - A.3 Predefined string tunings
  - A.4 Predefined fretboard diagrams
  - A.5 MIDI instruments
  - A.6 List of colors
  - A.7 The Feta font
  - A.8 Note head styles
  - A.9 Text markup commands
  - A.10 Text markup list commands
  - A.11 List of articulations
  - A.12 Percussion notes
  - A.13 Technical glossary
  - A.14 All context properties
  - A.15 Layout properties
  - A.16 Available music functions
  - A.17 Predefined type predicates
  - A.18 Scheme functions
- B. Cheat sheet
- C. LilyPond grammar
- D. GNU Free Documentation License
- E. LilyPond command index
- F. LilyPond index