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From: Stefan Vollmar <vollmar <at> nf.mpg.de>
Subject: arranging and publishing music with Org-mode and lilypond
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.orgmode
Date: 2010-10-02 22:26:39 GMT (1 year, 32 weeks, 2 days, 11 hours and 32 minutes ago)
Dear all,

I believe that many members of this list with an interest in music (notation/composition) might find the
http://lilypond.org project "addictive" (in the nicest possible manner): the concept is rather
similar to writing TeX, there is very good Emacs support (if you know where to look), it is all OpenSource,
there is extensive documentation (in LaTeX format with embedded lilypond snippets), the print quality
is excellent.

I mention this because while arranging some piece of music recently, I noticed that Org-mode might be
helpful in this context - it is probably already possible by tweaking org-babel a bit: lilypond
encourages the user to structure music in a way that lends itself rather naturally to processing with
Org-mode - you can assign a theme, a few bar with notes or even whole voices to variables and use them
repeatedly. And imagine using Org-mode's outline capabilities to structure a piece of music. Exporting
an org-file with lilypond-snippets in it to PDF or HTML might also be an interesting option.

I have not yet put any effort into it and just wanted to find out if anybody apart from me finds the combination
of Org-mode and lilypond (potentially) exciting.

Warm regards,
 Stefan
-- 
Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.
Head of IT group
Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung
Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany
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