Denemo is a free softwaregraphical interface for music notation, mainly to GNU LilyPond, a program for engraving musical scores. It uses GTK+ 2.0 and works on GNU/Linux, although there are ports to Darwin and Microsoft Windows. This article is about Free Software as defined by the sociopolitical Free Software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... A graphical user interface (or GUI, pronounced gooey) is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. ... GNU LilyPond is a free software program for engraving sheet music. ... Unix systems filiation. ... Hexley, the mascot of Darwin Darwin is a free, open source, Unix-like operating system first released by Apple Computer in 2000. ... As of 2006, Microsoft Windows is the worlds most common operating system for use on personal computers. ...
Denemo helps prepare notation for publishing with Lilypond. Denemo does not strive to display all notation graphically or be the most complete graphic environment. Therefore, Denomo is not to be considered a complete WYSIWYG editor for music notation (like Finale or Sibelius), but rather a visual interface for speedy note entry in the LilyPond language. Its main purpose is to quickly prepare scores for final editing with LilyPond or ABC music notation. ÃWYSIWYG (pronounced //), is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product. ... Finale is a scorewriter created by the software company MakeMusic! The main program is used by many professionals. ... Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by the company Sibelius Software. ...
Denemo is very keyboard centric with all music notation functions accessible via keyboard shortcuts. The design philosophy is that computer music notation can be faster when one only uses a keyboard, rather than keyboard and mouse. Once learned Denemo can be an intuitive and speedy way of adding music notation. The current stable version of Denemo is 0.7.4.