# Engraving Sheet Music
# LilyPond
The LilyPond notation engraver can be used with LaTeX via the lilypond-book
command. First lets create a LaTeX document (with the file extension .lytex
) to embed our music in:
\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
{\fontsize{24pt}{24pt}\textbf{Twa Corbies}}\\
\end{center}
\begin{flushright}
\textsc{Your Name}
\end{flushright}
% We don't need to require anything for this because lilypond-book will process it.
\lilypondfile{TwaCorbies.ly}
\end{document}
Then we create our LilyPond file (.ly
), including the lilypond-book-preamble.ly
file (which LilyPond will know how to find):
\version "2.16.2"
\include "lilypond-book-preamble.ly"
voice = <<
\relative c' {
\tempo "con affetto"
\clef bass
\key e \minor
\time 3/4
a a b | c a a | g a2 |
a4 a b | c2 ~ c8 a8 | a8 g a2 |
\bar "|."
}
\addlyrics{
As I was wal -- king all a -- lane
I heard twa cor -- bies make a mane.
}
>>
\score {
<<
\new Staff = "voice" {
\voice
}
>>
\layout { }
\midi {
\context {
\Score
tempoWholesPerMinute = #(ly:make-moment 90 4)
}
}
}
to build, we then run the lilypond-book
command:
lilypond-book --include=mymusicsourcedirectory/ --pdf TwaCorbies.lytex
which will output a PDF containing your LilyPond engraved music: