Lilypond to BMML conversion

LilyPond is a compiled system: it is run on a text file describing the music. The resulting output is viewed on-screen or printed. In some ways, LilyPond is more similar to a programming language than graphical score editing software.
LilyPond is written and edited by volunteers. It is distributed by the GNU General public License and the GNU Free Documentation License, that allows everybody to modify the program. For more details please visit the website of Lilypond.
In Internet you can find quite a lot of scores and Lilypond is very usefull for blind people in order to provide the braille format score (visit the website of Mutopia)...

Now you can try the possibility to convert a Lilypond format score into a BMML format. The Lilypond language has got many symbols and there are many 'dialects' from different countries (remember that it's edited by volunteers), so the converter needs to be more developed (we are working on it) in order to convert a larger number of scores. Right now it's possible to experiment the operation. To test the system is necessary to download the following examples.

1. Bach Canon
2. Gib dich zufrieden und sei stille
3. Gymnopedie
4. Haendel Air
5. Preludio
6. Sinfonia 2
7. Sinfonia 13

When you have downloaded a Lilypond file you have to...

1. Press "browse" button.
2. Select the Lilypond file you want to convert.
3. Press "upload" button.
4. The programme will show the list of parts of your Lilypond file.
5. At this point you must select one part at a time. You will then have a window where you must specify some characteristics of your part, such as: instrument, transposition, chord direction, clef.
6. The same operation must be repeated for each of the parts. You can also skipe step 5 and 6. In this case the programme will use default values. For example, chords will always be represented starting from the highest note.
7. Press "convert" button.
8. Wait until you see the message "download converted file". This may take some time if the file to convert is a big file.

Upload Lilypond file for conversion.