To build Denemo from CVS or a source package, the following dependent packages should be installed first. Remember to install the development packages as well (check your distribution for the specific package name):

	For Debian Users
	Type apt-cache showsrc denemo at a command line to determine what are the package names for Denemo dependencies. Type apt-get build-dep denemo to build the dependent files or use apt-get to install the packages individually by copying and pasting there names to the command line.

Denemo uses other applications for playback and printing. You may need to install the following applications, and edit the preferences menu to tell Denemo which you want it to use.

Denemo is available in a variety of formats. The current stable release is available either as source code or in binary format. The Development branch of Denemo is available as a CVS source tree.

Use the File menu to perform global operations. The File menu contains the following Menu Items:

Use the Edit menu to access common editing commands.

Use the View menu to toggle toolbars and palettes used for entering notation with the mouse.

Use the Mode menu to switch modes or choose to use modelessly. The different modes are useful for different ways or phases of work.

With the standard keybindings the modes work like this:

Use the Playback menu to start playback of your score. Denemo lets you hear your score, using an external MIDI player, or Csound.

Use the Help menu to get help using Denemo.

Use the Toolbar to access common Denemo commands quickly. The Tool Bar contains the following icons:

Icon	Description
	Opens the Open File dialog box.
	Saves the current file
	Runs LilyPond to convert the current file to PDF and sends it to the printer for printing
	Undoes the last action. (Currently Undo only works for adding notes)
	Redoes the previous undo action. (Currently Redo only works for adding notes).
	Cuts the current selection to the clipboard.
	Copies the selected notation to the clipboard.
	Pastes the current clipboard item at the cursor position.
	Jumps to the first measure of the movement.
	Jumps to the last measure of the movement.
	Plays the current piece using MIDI
	Stops the MIDI playback

Denemo allows you to explore all the actions (insert/delete/edit/navigate...) using the Objects menu. So inserting notes can be found under Notes/Rests while inserting a Staff comes under Staffs/Voices.

Note

When you have found the action you need you can right click on the menu item to get an explanation of the action and to view/set a key press- a keyboard shortcut - to activate the action. If you are setting a lot of keyboard shortcuts for menu items you can check the Edit->Keyboard Setup->Allow Quick Shortcut Edits button, whereupon you can set the keyboard shortcut just by pressing the desired key while the menu item is selected.

Denemo offers several ways of entering music: typing at the keyboard, playing in acoustically using a microphone or choosing items from the menu system.

Using the menus for everything would be very slow, but next to each menu item is the keypress that you can use instead. If there is no keypress shown, and you want to use that item often, then right click on the menu item and you can set a key combination for that menu action. Right clicking is also useful for getting a description of what the menu action is.

Typing at the keyboard can be very fast, if you forget which keypress you need you can consult the menu system to find out. This method is good for touch typists.

For entering a lot of already written-out music, playing the music in via a microphone can offer the fastest and most musical method.

One way to do this is to choose Rhythm entry mode and enter the music as pure rhythm, ignoring the note names. As you complete each measure the bell will sound so that you can keep your eyes on the score you are copying without needing to look up and check that you haven't miss-typed. If you are a reading musician you will find that you tap in the rhythm rhythmically which helps to keep your place in the piece you are entering.

Once you have entered the rhythms you click on the button marked microphone and, placing the cursor in the first measure, play the notes into a microphone plugged into the mic input of your soundcard. The microphone button introduces a special entry mode where the pitches you play in will overlay the rhythm, appearing as blue notes. You can delete any wrong pitches using the usual delete keys, without deleting the rhythm. In fact if you have an "interloper" (an extra spurious note) you can delete it and the other pitches will all move along to their correct places.

Another method of playing music in doesn't involve entering the rhythm separately. For this click on Rhythm the Microphone button and then choose Insert instead of Overlays on the Pitch Recognition Panel that pops up. With Insert the sounded notes are entered as in the prevailing rhythm. So by choosing a rhythm (e.g. half-note, quarter-note, or a custom rhythm pattern) and playing in the pitches you can enter the music into a blank score.

The old Denemo keymaps are still active, but precedence is given to the keybindings that appear beside the actions in the menus. (see the section called “Adding Custom Key Bindings”). (Input via MIDI keyboard is planned for later versions of Denemo.) Denemo also provides language specific keymaps for a few langauages.

Score Setup

Denemo provides different ways to set up scores:

• Use a Template

• Use shortcut keys to add staves and set attributes

• Use the Setup Wizard

• Use Menus

Using Templates to Setup Scores

Denemo comes with a few preinstalled templates. You can also design your own templates as well.

1. Navigate to File, New From Template, The Open dialog box appears.

2. Double click on a template name from the list of templates. The dialog box closes and the template appears. Alternately type @NewfromTemplate@, the New From Template dialog box appears. Double click on a template name from the list of templates. The dialog box closes and the template appears.

	Note
	Adjust the clef, key and time signatures as needed.

Using Shortcuts to Setup Scores

Inserting attributes with shortcut keys is an effective way to quickly customize a template.

• Navigate to the Staff you want to change an attribute using one of these shortcuts:

  • Type @StaffDown@ to move down one staff

  • Type @StaffUp@ to move up one staff

Using Templates to Setup Scores

Denemo Comes with a wide range of prebuilt templates for standard vocal and instrumental scores. If you have a custom score setup you use over and over create a score layout using the Setup Wizard and save it as a template.

1. Click on File>New From Template, The Open Dialog box appears displaying the currently available Templates.

2. Double click on the template name in the righthand pane. The template loads in the Main Denemo Window.

   	Note
   	The currently active staff will be black. All other staves will be yellow, until they are active.

This section describes how to use the original note entry mode to enter music from the keyboard.

Lets look at the section called “Using the Denemo Classic Mode”. We see a c major scale and an arpeggio spread over two octaves. Type the letter 'c', the cursor jumps to the nearest c, (if it is in the wrong octave, type a comma [to go down] , or an apostrophe [to go up]) . We have reached middle c, we could start moving the cursor up note by note using the k key and then down note by note using the k key. A faster method however is to type the letter name of each note and moves the cursor to the exact pitch. This holds true for the notes of a chord or arpeggio, we jump to the note by typing the note name and adjust the octave with the command and apostrophe. This works if within an octave.

Note

Often you will want to enter notes that jump a large interval. To speed up note entry in such circumstances help Denemo determine the direction by moving one step in that direction using the j or k keys. If you have entered a note on middle c and want to enter a b one octave higher, hit the k key before entering the note. Another solution to big leaps would be to first type an apostrophe or comma to get into the intended octave and only then type the note name.

Now that we have an idea how to move around the staff we are ready to add note values. Note values are entered using the right hand. shows the rhythm entry keys as YHJKLOP . This yields the following: Y= a whole note, H = a half note, J = an quarter note,K= a eigth note, L = a 16th note, O = a 32nd note, and P = a sixty fourth.

Figure 2. Accidentals

Accidentals are added using the plus and minus keys on the keyboard. Double sharps and flats are added with additional pluses and minuses as needed in any particular key signature.

Figure 2, “Accidentals” shows a chromatic scale starting on middle C and ending on middle C. To add accidentals while typing new notes do the following:

To add accidentals to existing notation do the following:

	Note
	For those familiar with LilyPond, Denemo handles accidentals in a more intuitive fashion. LilyPond requires you to explicitly name each note with an accidental even if it is part of the key signature, Denemo only requires an alteration if the accidental is part of the key signature, and it keeps the alteration for the entire measure.

To enter a chord choose a pitch and a rhythm for your base note. Next move the cursor to the next chord tone using the letter name for each note or the j and k keys, hit enter to add the note. To make chord entry easier there is a key binding also for the left hand (Ctrl t)as well. Type Enter to toggle chord tones on and off. This add tones or converts rests to a chord tones. Shift Enter removes tones and switches them to rests.

Figure 3. Chords

Figure 3, “Chords” three contains a series of chords. To enter chords:

	Note
	To alter chord tones chromatically, type the plus sign to sharpen the note at the cursor by one half-step and the minus sign to flatten the current note by a half step in the same manner you sharpen or flatten any pitch in Denemo

	Note
	Entering a chord when you are already at the end of the measure (the cursor turns red when this happens) may cause your next note to be added to the beginning of the next measure, or even create a next measure if one didn't already exist.

This toolbar can be used to enter notes using the mouse. It also shows what the prevailing duration is, that is what duration of note will be inserted when you press a note name key.

The standard keybinding for entering notes in a chord is the Enter (aka Return) key. This enters the note at the cursor position making a chord out of the current note/chord. This works in Edit and Insert mode. In Classic mode it works on preceding note as you are appending notes.

Denemo allow you to insert LilyPond directives in between notes and at the start of each staff. This means that the score can be tailored to a great extent without ever resorting to editing LilyPond files themselves. (Re-loading from an edited LilyPond file is generally unsuccessful). Choose Other-\>LilyPond directive and enter the lilypond required. (e.g. \transpose c d { will start transposing up a tone, use another LilyPond directive "}" to stop the transposing).Denemo does not understand these directives, but the PDF file will show them. Things like beaming and much, much more can be controlled this way.

Table 1. Dynamics and Phrasing

Mark	Name	Shortcut	Marks	Name	Shortcut
p	Piano			accent	@ToggleAccent@
pp	Pianissimo	na		acciaccatura	Use a LilyPond directive
ppp	Pianississimo	na		appoggiatura	Use LilyPond directive
mf	Mezzo Forte	na		arpeggio	@ToggleArpeggio@
f	Forte	na		downbow	Use LilyPond directive
ff	Fortissimo	na		downmordent	Use LilyPond directive
fff	Fortissatissimo	na		downprall	Use LilyPond directive
sfz	Sfortzando	@ToggleSforzato@		fermata	Shift Asterisk *
	flageolet	Use LilyPond directive		glissando	Use LilyPond directive
	lheel	Use LilyPond directive		lineprall	Use LilyPond directive
	longfermata	Use LilyPond directive		ltoe	Use LilyPond directive
	rheel	Use LilyPond directive		marcato	Use LilyPond directive
	rtoe	Use LilyPond directive		mordent	@ToggleMordent@
	shortfermata	Use LilyPond directive		open
	signumcongruentime	Use LilyPond directive		portato	Use LilyPond directive
	staccato	@ToggleStaccato@		@TogglePrall@
	stacctissiimo	Ctrl Alt . period		pralldown	Use LilyPond directive
	stopped	Use LilyPond directive		prallmordent	Use LilyPond directive
	tenuto	@ToggleTenuto@		@TogglePrallPrall@
	thumb	Use LilyPond directive		prallup	Use LilyPond directive
	trill	@ToggleTrill@		reverseturn	Use LilyPond directive
	@ToggleTurn@	@ToggleTurn@e		@ToggleUpprall@	Use LilyPond directive
	upbow	Use LilyPond directive		verylongfermata	Use LilyPond directive
	upmordent	Use LilyPond directive		@ToggleBeginSlur@

To add an expression to notation as you type, just enter the note pitch and duration you want and immediately afterwards the expression you want from the menu Expression Marks. As always, you can assign shortcuts to expression marks you frequently use. To add expressions after you have already added notes, position the cursor at the note you want to add an expression to. You won't need to be exactly on the note to add expressions especially at the end of a bar.

Example 1. 

Midi playback.  When you click on the Play item of the toobar the current movement is played starting from the measure with the cursor in it. If there is a selection then the measures containing the selection are played, otherwise play continues until you click stop or the movement ends. While playing, the music scrolls automatically so that you can watch and either bookmark or stop the music if you hear something you want to re-visit. You can make corrections to the synchronism by using the measure forwards or backwards keypresses (usually bound to Ctrl right/left arrow). This automatic scrolling is turned off if you explicitly set the range of measures in the Playback->Playback Properties dialog

In addition to permitting midi playback, Denemo permits playback using C sound. Denemo will play your file with a .orc file. In the C sound configuration dialog box make sure the command: csound -d -W is set. Next use the navigation box to choose your .orc file. Denemo comes with a few demo .orc files which you will find in XXX. The C sound module of Denemo is currently under construction.

Tuplets can be entered using the Tuplets menu on the Menu of Objects, or the old method described below

LilyPond treats tuplets as fractions with the top (numerator) signifying the amount of notes normally displayed and the denominator the amount of notes to be displayed instead. If this sounds confusing for musicians raised on triplets, pentuplets etc., it is. So Denemo has simplified this by permitting you to use the triplet name to lay them down easily, it also lets you create custom tuplets if you so desire.

Table 2, “” lists the keyboard shortcut for adding tuplets in Denemo. To add tuplets do the following:

Figure 4. Tuplet Markers

Denemo has a variety of features to speed editing. To ease correction of notes us Edit Mode. You can position the cursor on any note in a chord and change its pitch, accidental, octave using the keypresses assigned to the standard actions.

Denemo has a variety of features to speed editing. To ease correction of notes us Edit Mode. You can position the cursor on any note in a chord and change its pitch, accidental, octave using the keypresses assigned to the standard actions.

Denemo permits the use of mutiple staves for part work, as well as enabling multiple voices on a single staff. To add voices to the current staff do the following:

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Choose Other->Enter Lyrics.

	Note
	you must provide a lyric for each note.

The Extend Syllable and Center check boxes are not documented, but you can use double hyphen “–“ and double underscore “__” respectively for these (as described in the LilyPond documentation for syllables and extenders).

To enter figures choose Other->Enter figured bass. There are some shortcuts that enable all the work to be done with the numeric keypad. A brief summary is given by right clicking the option. The conventions are described in the LilyPond docs.

Denemo still comes with a number of premade keyboard shortcut maps. However, the shortcuts attached to the menu items take precedence and are much easier to set. It is intended to replace this mechanism, possibly with a macro facility, at some future date.