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 features in v1.1.8:

• Improved Spanners
• Enhanced Lyrics
• Improved Text and Graphics
• Custom Ornament Symbols
• Custom Barlines
• Chord Charts with symbols, barlines, repeats, text markings, pauses etc..

New features in v1.1.6:

• Lyrics Interface
• Cursor on music moves to match cursor in lyrics
• Jump to any point in the lyrics by mouse or keyboard
• The inactive pane (lyrics or music) clearly indicated by graying-out
• Margins Control
• Set top, bottom, left and right margins in mm.
• Tweaking Typesetting
• Individual notes, chords and rests can be tweaked
• Accidentals and markings move with the note
• Fingerings can be offset
• For use when LilyPond is sub-optimal
• Fret Diagrams
• Chords typeset as fret diagrams
• Defaults to Guitar
• Can be used with Chord Names too
• Comprehensive Musical Symbol Support
• Menu access to the complete set of LilyPond music symbols
• Over 600 types of music glyphs can be placed and dragged on the score
• More Ornamentation Support
• Coulés
• Arpègements
• Suspensions
• Editing Timer
• Displays time spent creating a score
• Accumulates over all editing sessions

New features in v1.1.2:

• Links to source files can be relative to current score location
• Transcribing from MIDI
• Play in to a click track.
• Enter rhythm afterwards.
• Guided MIDI import
• Durations can be checked as they are entered.
• Support for LilyPond 2.18
• Old scores are updated for incompatible syntax.
• Re-shaping/Re-positioning Ties
• Both WYSIWYG and tweaking width/height/convexity.
• LilyPond View Improvements
• Bracket Matching.
• Line numbering visible.
• Cursor position highlighted.

New features in v1.0.6:

• Direct import of music XML.
• Improved Rhythm Entry
• Combined Key Signatures
• Search and Edit
• More Wysiwyg facilties
• Adjust padding of fermata, trills etc
• Various other changes and fixes

New features in v1.0.4:

• MIDI playback
• Note Entry by PC-keyboard Improved
• Learner mode
• More translations
• Double-Clicking for Help
• Various bugfixes

New features in version1.0.2:

• Enhanced Wysiwyg
• Dragging now shows the object as you drag moving over the score
• Dragging of objects attached to notes can now be done
• Reshape Slurs
• Chord Symbols
• Place chords on a separate staff and have them automatically typeset as Chord Symbols
• Various bug fixes
• Octave playback bug fixed

New features in version 0.8.22:

• Playback Improvements
  playback in historic tunings, microtonal music playback.
  mute selected voices during playback

• Denemo Display improvements
  Whole Measure Rests fills measure for all timesignatures
  Upbeat (Anacrusis, pickup) command now fills measure
  Vector graphics for Directives [[Graphics Fonts]]
  Fully justified page display.
  Better display for 1-line staffs (e.g. Drum staff)

• Breve, Longa notes and rests<
  Prevailing duration applies to Breve, Longa, Plain chant etc [[Prevailing Duration]]

• Template for Accordion Shifts
• Improved Handling of Voices
• More Printing Controls
  Change/override the printed measure numbering
  Hide single printed objects (notes/chords, timesignatures, keysignatures, clefs)
  Hide linear section of notes or the stafflines (or both).
  Breath mark
  "Mensurstriche" / Mensural Barlines switchable (printing)

• Human-readable file format for Denemo files.
• Tutorial
• Bugfixes
  Chords sound all notes on entry
  Playback paging made reliable
  Check note pitches fixed
  Lyrics panes word wrap

New features in version 0.8.20:

• Improved cursor, showing insert position and clearly distinguishing appending from editing/inserting
• Two key keyboard shortcuts
• MusicXML import
• Improved LilyPond import
• "NotationMagick": Scripts to generate, twist, randomize and shuffle music.
  
  * Twelve-Tone-Row (Schoenberg) Generator
  
  * Random Note insert. Variants: All diatonic, all chromatic, from a given pool, a complete pool at once (shuffled)

• Bug Fixes
  
  * Grace notes on tuplets fixed.
  
  * Paste places non-note objects correctly.

• Build options:
  
  * configure --disable-portaudio is now available, removes
  dependencies of portaudio, libsamplerate, fftw3 and
  aubio