[sage-devel] Re: [sage-edu] Python toolkit for music theory

2015-12-08 Thread Rob Beezer
lilypond uses TeX to create "engraved sheet music." So I'd imagine it would create PDFs that could be converted to other formats. From a cursory look it appears that music21 has good support for MusicXML so that might be a way to interoperate between the pieces. Sample (unencumbered) score

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-edu] Python toolkit for music theory

2015-12-08 Thread William Stein
Installing music21 is trivial -- just use "pip install music21". I tried with SMC: https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/4a5f0542-5873-4eed-a85c-a18c706e8bcd/files/support/2015-12-08-141248-music21.sagews However, to display music, one would need a way to get a png or svg image written to a file;