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Realbook

A Realbook style collection of sheetmusic, created with lilypond.

Design Goals

  • should not require any scripting or templating in addition to lilypond/guile
  • should look as neat as the classics
  • should be transposable (TODO)

Similar Projects

  • Mark Veltzer's openbook is a very popular and versatile resource. I chose not to built upon it, because I did not like the idea of templating. As stated in my design goals, I want to achieve a lilypond only solution. However, for now I will not duplicate songs that are also contained in the openbook maually(!) myself. I have not yet looked into the generated lilypond files with respect to importing them verbosely, but that could be an option.

Prerequisites

Usage

Run lilypond -o realbook main.ly to create realbook.pdf containing all scores in the ./scores directory. Alternatively, run make realbook.

To add music, create a score in the ./scores directory, and include it in ./scores/all.ly.

TODO

Pull requests welcome.

  • add LICENCE file
  • create score overlay underneath header as in the Realbook
  • create toc and title page
  • substitute ./scores/all.ly by lisp function, collecting all scores in alphabetical order from ./scores directory
  • allow easy transposition of all scores
  • include source of each transcription in header/tagline if there are no legal issues with that
  • test with newer lilypond version
  • if there are no legal issues, publish realbook.pdf as artifact
  • read scores location from environment variable and only default to ./scores
  • default globally to \set chordChanges = ##t, i.e. omit redundant chords repetitions over more than one bar
  • default globally to \numericTimeSignature, i.e. 4/4 measure as '4/4' instead of 'c)'
  • dynamically expand alternatives on demand
  • git commit hooks
    • lint
    • remove trailing whitespace
    • replace tabs
    • reindent
    • use formatter (lilypond?, frescobaldi?)
  • build
    • midi
    • epub
    • mp3?
  • create yeoman template for new scores, asking for:
    • title
    • composer
    • meter
    • measure
    • key
    • shape (e.g. AABA)

Credits

Many thanks to the kind and helpful lilypond community.

This project was largely based on and inspired by Leigh Verlag's blogpost