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…