battuta

battuta opens an MEI file, shows it as engraved notation, and lets you move a caret through it. Arrow keys walk the notes. i starts typing music. ctrl + z takes any of it back — byte for byte, down to the last attribute of the file on disk.

It is not an engraver. Verovio draws every note, and the document you opened is the thing you are editing — not a picture of it.

Page view with the player: Schumann's Melodie, engraved by Verovio, printed title and all.

Write music from the keyboard

Note input is an overwrite mode with the barline as its guard: what you type always adds up to a legal measure. Note entry →

Arrange in blocks

Select a rectangle of measures × staves, copy it, paste it into another staff — or another file. The duration checker vets every paste. Arranging →

Notate the form

Repeats, voltas, segno and coda marks — and playback that actually takes the jumps you wrote. Repeats and form →

Hear the edit

Press play and the score plays with your ties held, your staccatos short and your repeats taken, highlighting the note that is sounding. Playback →

Find your way around

Install and launchLinux deb and AppImage, macOS app, or straight from source.

A tour of the windowHeader, tabs, status bar, toasts — what every control does.

Your first scoreEight minutes: a blank score to a playable phrase.

How battuta thinksDocument as truth, tiles, commands, and why edits get refused.

Keyboard referenceEvery binding, QWERTY and AZERTY, generated from the app itself.

Known limitsWhat battuta deliberately does not do, and what is still coming.

This guide matches battuta 0.0.1 and later

Everything described here is in the shipped editor. Where a feature landed after the 0.0.1 bundles, the page says so — and What’s new lists those changes in one place.