LilyPond Resources

Each of these links has been recommended by at least one LilyPonder. No representation is made, etc.

The Mutopia Project – http://www.mutopiaproject.org
The Mutopia Project includes free sheet music submitted by volunteers, all available as Postscript (.ps) and PDF (.pdf) files, for both A4 and Letter paper sizes, as well as Lilypond's own file format (.ly).

LilyPond Snippet Repository (LSR) – http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/
LSR collects demonstrative examples, contributed by LilyPonders.

Music Dictionary Online – http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheorydefs.htm
Music Dictionary Online explains words and terms found in musical scores, books about music, web sites on music, notes on CDs or in concert programmes.

Graham Percival – http://percival-music.ca/
Graham Percival posts his cello and viola compositions.

http://www.schemers.org
The Scheme programming language is used in LilyPond, both as part of the input syntax, and as an internal mechanism to glue together modules of the program. There are on-line books, such as The Scheme Programming Language.

http://www.svenax.net/
Svenax has posted 100 bagpipe tunes in his sheet music archive. Lily source is available at svn://svenax.dynip.com/LilyMusic/Bagpipe, which needs Subversion, which is easy to use through the TortoiseSVN client.

jEdit – http://jedit.org/
jEdit is a text editor with a LilyPondTool plugin to help build LilyPond scores. See the LilyPondTool User's Guide, especially Chapter 2: Installation, and subscribe to the user list.

LilyPad – http://edbaskerville.com/software/lilypad/
LilyPad is a Mac OS X editor for LilyPond.

A First Guide to PostScript – http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/programming/postscript/postscript.html
This guide is an introduction to PostScript.

Han-Wen Nienhuys – http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/
Han-Wen Nienhuys maintains some sheet music pour cor.

See also the publications about LilyPond.