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• 1. Musical notation
  • 1.1 Pitches
  • 1.2 Rhythms
  • 1.3 Expressive marks
  • 1.4 Repeats
  • 1.5 Simultaneous notes
  • 1.6 Staff notation
  • 1.7 Editorial annotations
  • 1.8 Text
• 2. Specialist notation
  • 2.1 Vocal music
  • 2.2 Keyboard and other multi-staff instruments
  • 2.3 Unfretted string instruments
  • 2.4 Fretted string instruments
    • 2.4.1 Common notation for fretted strings
    • 2.4.2 Guitar
    • 2.4.3 Banjo
  • 2.5 Percussion
  • 2.6 Wind instruments
  • 2.7 Chord notation
  • 2.8 Contemporary music
  • 2.9 Ancient notation
  • 2.10 World music
• 3. General input and output
  • 3.1 Input structure
  • 3.2 Titles and headers
  • 3.3 Working with input files
  • 3.4 Controlling output
  • 3.5 MIDI output
  • 3.6 Extracting musical information
• 4. Spacing issues
  • 4.1 Page layout
  • 4.2 Score layout
  • 4.3 Breaks
  • 4.4 Vertical spacing
  • 4.5 Horizontal spacing
  • 4.6 Fitting music onto fewer pages
• 5. Changing defaults
  • 5.1 Interpretation contexts
  • 5.2 Explaining the Internals Reference
  • 5.3 Modifying properties
  • 5.4 Useful concepts and properties
  • 5.5 Advanced tweaks
  • 5.6 Using music functions
• A. Notation manual tables
  • A.1 Chord name chart
  • A.2 Common chord modifiers
  • A.3 Predefined string tunings
  • A.4 Predefined fretboard diagrams
  • A.5 Predefined paper sizes
  • A.6 MIDI instruments
  • A.7 List of colors
  • A.8 The Feta font
  • A.9 Note head styles
  • A.10 Text markup commands
  • A.11 Text markup list commands
  • A.12 List of special characters
  • A.13 List of articulations
  • A.14 Percussion notes
  • A.15 Technical glossary
  • A.16 All context properties
  • A.17 Layout properties
  • A.18 Available music functions
  • A.19 Context modification identifiers
  • A.20 Predefined type predicates
  • A.21 Scheme functions
• B. Cheat sheet
• C. GNU Free Documentation License
• D. LilyPond command index
• E. LilyPond index