The note-editor Rosegarden allows creation, editing and transposing of sheet-music under Linux. The edit-functions it provides are quite confortable and thus it is a great help in creating transposed versions of songs that cannot be played otherwise in the pitch-range of certain instruments.

For larger projects, rosegarden can export the lines in Lilypond's native format. It does so very nicely, and the files are structured in a way that makes it easy to check and edit them by hand.
The data that rosegarden exports can easily be combined to complex sheets using a text-editor and the lilypond-software.

Use your package-manager to install these very nice pieces of free software.

Since Novell does not provide Rosegarden RPMs, you need to download them from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/…/RPMS.jacklab/.

It depends on “liblo” from the same directory, “gengetopts” from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/…/RPMS.suser-oc2pus/, and Ladspa, which can be found along with its dependencies on the Suse 10.0 DVD.

Download-Links:

• liblo
• gengetopts
• Rosegarden

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