Denemo is a music notation program for Linux and Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. Music can be typed in at the PC-Keyboard, or played into a microphone plugged into your computer's soundcard.

Denemo itself does not engrave the music - it uses LilyPond which generates beautiful sheet music to the highest publishing standards. Denemo just displays the music so you can enter and edit the music efficiently.

Features:

• Logically arranged menus to locate any particular command - once found the keypress is displayed with the command.
• Complete, quick and easy control over which keypress to use for any particular Denemo command.
• Help for every command on the menu item itself - just right click. Playing back your music while the measures scroll on the screen. Midi output.
• PDF output, with a choice of parts, full score, reduced score - all the control that the LilyPond language supplies. Output of excerpts as graphics (.png format) for inclusion in documents, web pages etc.
• Multiple movements/songs in one Denemo file.
• Entering music following rhythmic patterns - type in the rhythm once and you need only type in the notes in future when the same rhythm recurs.
• Playing music in via microphone - the notes played are detected and entered according to the prevailing rhythm, or overlaying a rhythm previously entered.
• Files of Templates and Examples showing you how to exploit LilyPond features. An extreme example - a cue in one part extracted from another part. Should you edit the first part, the cue changes automatically! As usual, Denemo does not display the cue, only a sign telling you what LilyPond is doing.
• A musical instrument tuner - in fact, probably the best. Temperaments include mean-tone and the Lehman temperament for J.S. Bach.

New in v0.8.6

• Downloading new commands and edit scripts between releases of Denemo
• Improvements to MIDI out, Tempo and Volume changes and MIDI message inserts.
• Improvements to Lyrics: Edit lyrics in text editor and see the syllable placement as you type. Multiple verses per voice allowed.
• Denemo can update its set of commands (scripted menu items) without recompiling by connecting to its online server.
• Pasting LilyPond text directly into the Denemo window. By pasting the actual music text a Denemo editable score can be created from almost any LilyPond file.
• Unfinished measure indicator. Shows you which measures are short of notes/rests.
• Easy generation of new commands from an existing example: no knowledge of scheme required!
• With JACK, the playback starts from the cursor or plays back the selection if there is one. All this happens without re-creating the MIDI data, and in any case without generating external files.
• Easier setting/unsetting the selection by mouse clicks.
• Volume and Tempo changes in MIDI output, and insertion of arbitrary MIDI messages at any point in the music.
• Display of attributes set on the Score and separately on each movement: Titles, page breaks etc are now displayed & can be clicked on to edit them.
• Popup attributes set on Staffs and Voices so they can be edited.
• Fix positioning cursor with mouse even when there are several voices on a staff.
• Timebase - after MIDI playback the timing of a note is given on the status bar when the cursor is moved onto it (minutes, seconds and centiseconds).