Nailed it, Wilbert! It seems that I must be the first person to install
python-ly as well as Adam Spiers' ly2video. That's a really cool utility
which takes a .ly project, compiles to MIDI and ultimately gives an AVI file
with the score scrolling past over the synchronised MIDI.
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address@hidden ~$ python
Python 2.7.8 (default, Oct 20 2014, 15:05:19)
[GCC 4.9.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import ly
>>> ly.__path__
*['/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ly2video-0.4.1-py2.7.egg/ly']*
>>> ly.__file__
*'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ly2video-0.4.1-py2.7.egg/ly/__init__.pyc'*
>>>
[1]+ Stopped python
address@hidden ~$
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