https://github.com/ananthp/lilyraga

Score Carnatic music with Lilypond
https://github.com/ananthp/lilyraga

lilypond music-notation ruby

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Score Carnatic music with Lilypond

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ananthp/lilyraga
• Owner: ananthp
• Created: 2011-03-11T16:20:25.000Z (about 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-02-06T12:18:15.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-17T04:05:24.710Z (about 3 years ago)
• Topics: lilypond, music-notation, ruby
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://ananthp.github.io/lilyraga
• Size: 277 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
lilyraga (Lily Raga)

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Lilypond header/language files for Carnatic Ragas.

With these header files for lilypond, you can score a carnatic composition (in some _raga_) in _Sa Ri Ga Ma_ notation (_sargam_) and render them in standard western staff notation.

	

	\include "carnatic/melam/15_mayamalavagowla.ly"

	\relative sa' {

		sa8 ri ga ma pa dha ni sa | sa ni dha pa ma ga ri sa

	}

	

Should produce this: ![https://github.com/ananthp/lilyraga/blob/master/examples/sample-raga.png](https://github.com/ananthp/lilyraga/raw/master/examples/sample-raga.png)

(A few more lines needed to compile the above lilypond code. _examples_ folder has an easy, minimal template to copy from. Also read Lilypond's documentation.)

	

## Folder Structure

	+-lilyraga/

	|	+-README.md

	|	+-carnatic/			<-- COPY this folder to /your/lilypond/path/ly

	|	|	+-carnatic.ly	<--	Generic Carnatic pitchnames file. 

	|	|	+-melam/	<--	Header files for all 72 Mela Ragas

	|	|	| +-01_kanakangi.ly

	|	|	| +-02_ratnangi.ly

			...

			... 

	|	+-examples		<-- 	Score examples, how-to, 72 Mela Raga Chart. (TODO)

	|

	|	+scripts		<--	Ruby scripts to generate Lilypond header files for Carnatic Ragams.

Copy the folder _carnatic_ to lilypond's include path (where it keeps language files like arabic.ly, english.ly etc)

## Real-world Examples

These scores are produced using lilyraga files

* [IMSLP: Maha Ganapathim by Muthuswamy Dikshitar](http://imslp.org/wiki/Maha_Ganapathim_%28Muttusv%C4%81mi_D%C4%ABk%E1%B9%A3ita%29#Scores)

* [github: Shobillu Saptaswara - Score and Source](https://github.com/ananthp/carnatic_scores/tree/master/shobillu-jaganmohini/source)