Realbook

A Realbook style collection of sheetmusic, created with lilypond.

Design Goals

Mark Veltzer's openbook is a very popular and versatile resource. I chose not to built upon it, because I did not like the idea of templating. As stated in my design goals, I want to achieve a lilypond only solution. However, for now I will not duplicate songs that are also contained in the openbook maually(!) myself. I have not yet looked into the generated lilypond files with respect to importing them verbosely, but that could be an option.

Run lilypond -o realbook main.ly to create realbook.pdf containing all scores in the ./scores directory. Alternatively, run make realbook.

To add music, create a score in the ./scores directory, and include it in ./scores/all.ly.

Pull requests welcome.

add LICENCE file
create score overlay underneath header as in the Realbook
create toc and title page
substitute ./scores/all.ly by lisp function, collecting all scores in alphabetical order from ./scores directory
allow easy transposition of all scores
include source of each transcription in header/tagline if there are no legal issues with that
test with newer lilypond version
if there are no legal issues, publish realbook.pdf as artifact
read scores location from environment variable and only default to ./scores
default globally to \set chordChanges = ##t, i.e. omit redundant chords repetitions over more than one bar
default globally to \numericTimeSignature, i.e. 4/4 measure as '4/4' instead of 'c)'
dynamically expand alternatives on demand
git commit hooks
- lint
- remove trailing whitespace
- replace tabs
- reindent
- use formatter (lilypond?, frescobaldi?)
build
- midi
- epub
- mp3?
create yeoman template for new scores, asking for:
- title
- composer
- meter
- measure
- key
- shape (e.g. AABA)

Many thanks to the kind and helpful lilypond community.

This project was largely based on and inspired by Leigh Verlag's blogpost