Re: Learning Music

[Frédéric Moinard]

Hi,

Eric Beaty a écrit :
> I've recently been studying how to read music though I've played music by ear
> for many years.  I downloaded LilyPond but I need a way to test/hear what I've
> created to make sure I'm writing it correctly.  Unfortunately, the free
> graphical interface programs you list are for Linux only and I used WindowsXP. 
> I would prefer a free graphical interface and thought about using PowerTabs, but
> I want the music only without the tab so I can learn to read music by itself. 
> Is there a way to copy and paste the pdf of the LilyPond music score into some
> time of software that would give me an accurate playback of what I've written is
> my question.

I'm learning lilypond since a week, so, don't trust me :)
I found that http://www.jedit.org/ and http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/ 
give a nice "Lilypond midi player"... type your music, and click "play" 
to hear it (with something like \set Staff.midiInstrument="voice oohs" 
in your staff context).. (ok, I work with linux, on a "sort of 
multimedia music oriented laptop", and it worked 'out of the box'... I 
don't know what you need for xp)

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hth

  Frédéric Moinard