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LilyPond music score

Files with ly suffix can be mainly encountered as music notations made and saved using the LilyPond music notation software.

Further details:

File extension ly is mainly associated with LilyPond, a free musical score creation program distributed under GNU Project. It uses text files to describe music, hence it is in some ways more similar to a programming language than graphical score editing software.

A .ly file contains saved music notation.

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LilyPond

A music notation and engraving software

LilyPond for Mac

A music composing and notation application for Mac

LilyPond for Linux

A music notation and composing software for Linux

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