In this post we will learn how to write a piece for classical guitar in Clairnote using a three-octave staff with tablatures. We will use as…

In the previous two posts, we learned how to write sheet music in Clairnote notation using different software: LilyPond, Frescobaldi…

In the previous post we showed how you can create Clairnote sheet music "from scratch", or from a standard MusicXML file, by using MuseScore…

Although one can create sheet music in Clairnote music notation with just LilyPond using the clairnote.ly file, it may not be easy or fast…

Are Clairnote's alternative accidental signs just a useless and unnecessary remnant held over from standard music notation? Are they really…

Now that the Clairnote website's migration to GatsbyJS is complete, I have changed the site to present Clairnote SN first, by default…

Have you noticed that pages on the Clairnote website now load really fast? For a number of months I've been working on moving the Clairnote…

Introducing Clairnote SN — a variant of Clairnote that doesn't use hollow and solid noteheads for pitch. The "SN" is for "standard noteheads…

Willem Feltkamp recently converted a bunch of Christmas carols to Clairnote and shared them on the Music Notation Project forum.  I've…

Recently, through the LilyPond user listserv, I was pleased to discover Eyes and Ears, an anthology of melodies for practicing sight-singing…

The Session is an amazing website that focuses on traditional Irish music — reels, jigs, waltzes, etc.  In addition to listings of events…

LilyBin is a website that offers a convenient web-based interface for using LilyPond.  While it is not fully-featured like Frescobaldi, it…

I'm pleased to announce that 67 new works were added to the Clairnote Sheet Music Library last month.  There were also 25 additions in April…

Just a quick post to announce that I have revamped the Clairnote Sheet Music Library, providing a number of improvements. Adding search was…

In December I (finally) designed Clairnote's custom clef symbols and wrote the code to render them with LilyPond.  Take a look! Clef symbols…

While Clairnote's Sheet Music Library now has over 500 pieces of music wouldn't it be nice to have sheet music specifically for those who…

Recently I was checking out The Jankó Keyboard Group on Facebook and was delighted to learn that Andrey Fidrya had written a nice little…

Previously when there were notes in two different voices that were two semitones apart (e.g. a major second), the noteheads would collide…

In Clairnote the notes D, F-sharp/G-flat, and A-sharp/B-flat are all solid notes that fall right between staff lines or ledger lines.  So…

In addition to the new key signatures covered in the previous post, the latest clairnote-code.ly clairnote.ly file (see Software:LilyPond…

Clairnote now has newly revised key signatures that are simpler, more compact, and easier to read, while providing more information and…

As 2015 hurtles to a close it is a good time to look back at recent improvements to the code for rendering Clairnote with LilyPond.  At this…

84 new pieces of sheet music in Clairnote music notation are now available for download from the Clairnote website, bringing the total we…

I received some feedback that the double stems on half notes were too subtle and too easily overlooked in the Clairnote sheet music produced…

Back in May (how time flies!) I mentioned some improvements to the code for rendering Clairnote notation with LilyPond.  These started with…

Clairnote in MuseScore? Too good to be true! And yet, as amazing as it seems, this post is to announce and acknowledge an effort to add…

Just a quick post to announce that I have added 71 new works to the Clairnote Sheet Music Library.  These are in addition to the 109 from my…

One year ago today the Clairnote sheet music library arrived, providing Clairnote versions of works from the Mutopia Project.  Over the past…

A talented young music student named Samuel Lam has composed a new piece for the piano in Clairnote.  This is a "first" for Clairnote!  The…

Announcing the latest LilyPond improvements...  Last week I released a new version of the code that extends LilyPond so that it can produce…

With all the attention we give to software for Clairnote it's easy to forget that you can also write music in Clairnote by hand. Just grab a…

One year ago today Clairnote music notation was introduced to the world.  Looking back it's been quite a productive first year (thanks in…

Recent work has lead to improved rendering of ledger lines, dotted notes, and beams in Clairnote music notation (by LilyPond). Here's a…

Have you ever wondered what chords look like in Clairnote? Including the more complex chords used in Jazz music? A new Chords page has been…

Lets take it to the next level. After several months in the pipeline I am pleased to announce a new Sheet Music Library offering 30…

This post is about going beyond global variables.  It is the last entry in a series of posts about recent improvements to the clairnote-code…

This is another post in a series of posts about recent improvements to the clairnote-code.ly clairnote.ly file. This one is about clef…

One of the more significant recent changes to the clairnote-code.ly clairnote.ly file is that now when you \include "clairnote.ly" in a…

The first image below shows how LilyPond positions the two dots in repeat signs (by default) for a custom four-line staff like Clairnote's…

Saint Patrick's day is a lucky day... to announce a new collection of fiddle tunes in Clairnote, many of them of Irish derivation.  So raise…

In LilyPond news, now that I have learned something about functional programming, I have been rewriting large swaths of the scheme code in…

This website does a nice job of introducing and promoting Clairnote, but sometimes there's no substitute for print media. So I recently…

I am pleased to introduce a new alternative notation system called Clairnote.  Like many of these kinds of systems Clairnote is not…