[Orgmode] arranging and publishing music with Org-mode and lilypond

[Stefan Vollmar]

Dear all,

I believe that many members of this list with an interest in music 
(notation/composition) might find the http://lilypond.org project "addictive" 
(in the nicest possible manner): the concept is rather similar to writing TeX, 
there is very good Emacs support (if you know where to look), it is all 
OpenSource, there is extensive documentation (in LaTeX format with embedded 
lilypond snippets), the print quality is excellent.

I mention this because while arranging some piece of music recently, I noticed 
that Org-mode might be helpful in this context - it is probably already 
possible by tweaking org-babel a bit: lilypond encourages the user to structure 
music in a way that lends itself rather naturally to processing with Org-mode - 
you can assign a theme, a few bar with notes or even whole voices to variables 
and use them repeatedly. And imagine using Org-mode's outline capabilities to 
structure a piece of music. Exporting an org-file with lilypond-snippets in it 
to PDF or HTML might also be an interesting option.

I have not yet put any effort into it and just wanted to find out if anybody 
apart from me finds the combination of Org-mode and lilypond (potentially) 
exciting.

Warm regards,
 Stefan
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Dr. Stefan Vollmar, Dipl.-Phys.
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