Tutorial 1 - Generating Sheet Music with LilyPond¶
The LilyPond module provides some methods to help you generate files in the LilyPond format. This allows you to create sheet music from some of the objects in mingus.containers.
>>> import mingus.extra.LilyPond as LilyPond
Generate LilyPond Strings¶
LilyPond creates sheet music from files formatted in the LilyPond format. This module can convert instances of the mingus.containers module to formatted LilyPond strings. The functions from_Note, from_NoteContainer, from_Bar, from_Track, from_Composition and from_Suite can all be used to do that job. We will look at one simple example, to find out more about the respective functions and their arguments, you can check the [refMingusExtraLilypond reference section].
>>> b = Bar()
>>> b + "C"
>>> b + "E"
>>> b + "G"
>>> b + "B"
>>> LilyPond.from_Bar(b)
"{ \\time 4/4 \\key c \\major c'4 e'4 g'4 b'4 }"
Generating Files from LilyPond Strings¶
To do something useful with the strings generated in the previous section, we can use the to_png and to_pdf functions. This does assume that you have LilyPond installed and in your $PATH.
>>> b = Bar()
>>> b + "C"
>>> b + "E"
>>> b + "G"
>>> b + "B"
>>> bar = LilyPond.from_Bar(b)
>>> LilyPond.to_png(bar, "my_first_bar")
