Over the last five years I have been engraving music in Lilypond using vim. Since I also use vim for programming, I find the way that I can navigate around files to be very comfortable. By using the vim text editor, saving incremental changes with git, and using the following bash script, I have found it incredibly easy to work on lilypond projects, even those that are very complex. This article is a quick introduction to the tools that I use to work on Lilypond.

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Introduction Hello world! This is William, I’m an organist currently living in New Jersey and going to the Juilliard School for my master’s as a harpsichord major. For the many musical things that I enjoy doing, I do a lot of engraving, and Lilypond is the engraving tool that I always use. It is extremely versatile, excelling at a lot of different types of scores and engravings. For my compositions, I am quite happy that Lilypond has managed to handle all of the quirks of organ compositions, including how to write registration changes and extra brackets between the staves (this will be explained below).

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