Choosing a Notation Program  ( basic introduction about factors to  consider; PDF file [so needs  Adobe Acrobat Reader to view] )         [ Kelly's Music & Computers ]
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the abc musical notation language [Chris Walshaw]

• The ABC Music project
• abc software packages
• abc Music Notation Editors [Sound & MIDI Software For Linux]
• ABC Plus Project [Guido Gonzato]
• "Some ABC applications implement unofficial extensions to the ABC language that make it possible to write polyphonic music. The purpose of the ABC Plus project is to provide software and documentation for this extended ABC."
• Versione italiana
• How to interpret abc music notation, A tutorial by Steve Mansfield [the LeSession pages]
• iabc [Aaron Newman] (Free)
• "iabc is a free (open source) program for editing music. It uses the ABC music notation language to produce high-quality graphical notation or MIDI output. The music notation and the ABC notation can be updated in real-time, making the construction of tunes using the ABC language hassle-free (or at least hassle-resistant)."
• Gscore (Free)
• abc collections [music scores]
• abcm2ps [Jean-François Moine]
• "...a command line program which converts ABC to music sheet in PostScript format. It is an extension of abc2ps which may handle many voices per staff."
• abc2ps [Michael Methfessel]: "...a typesetting program for abc. It reads a file containing abc code and outputs the music to another file in Postscript."
• ABC2Win [Jim Vint] (Free)
• abcMIDI [James Allwright]
• abctab2ps und flabc [Christoph Dalitz] (Free)
• "...a music and tablature typesetting program which translates an input file in the abc language into postscript."
• details
• Jef's page [Jean-François Moine): abcm2ps ("...converts ABC to music sheet in PostScript format..."); tclabc ("...a Tcl interface to the ABC notation...".]

Notation Software, Top

Allegro [MakeMusic! {Coda Music Technologies); see: Finale] [Macintosh & Windows]

algomusic.com [see: Java Music Specification Language]

Amadeus [see: Vivaldi Software]

Ararat Software; see: Score: : see New Notations (London)

Ars Nova Software [see: Songworks II Polyphonic]

Arpege Musique [see: Pizzicato]

Arkkra Enterprises [see: Mup]

Neuratron

AudioScore Professional

AudioScore Professional 3—Intelligent Music Entry [Sound to MIDI conversion (Neuratron)] [Macintosh & Windows]

• "AudioScore Professional 3 allows you to build up a full score using both MIDI instruments and microphone and uses the most advanced artificial intelligence technology to determine your intended rhythm and create accurate and musical score notation"
• free 30-day trial version
• [see also: PhotoScore]

Autoscore (Wildcat Canyon Software) [Macintosh & Windows]

• "A unique software program that turns your singing or playing into written music... ."

Bach Musicological Font [Yo Tomita, School of Music, Queen's University of Belfast (font for use in word processors)] [Macintosh & Windows]

• "Bach (Shareware) is a software font for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh. Bach contains a comprehensive set of musical symbols but retains the normal English character set in a standard Roman type-face."
• J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier II A Source Study
• Bach Bibliography (On-line database)

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BarFly [Phil Taylor] [Macintosh] (Free)

• "...a freeware integrated text editor/player/viewer for abc music files."

BerliOS Developer [see: Canorus, NoteEdit, & NtEd]

Berlioz [Domenique Montel & Fréderic Magiera, Lédignan [near Nîmes] (in French)] [Macintosh & Windows]

Braeburn Software

Braeburn Software [see: Music Publisher]

Brahms [Jan Würthner] [Linux] (Free)

• "Brahms is a professional music editor and sequencer...for Linux... ."

Braille Music Software,   See:

• Goodfeel Braille Music Translator

Optek Systems

• Toccata
• Opus Technologies
• NLS: That All May Read, Music Services [Library of Congress, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped]
• [Various resources concerning music in braille, including a downloadable version of Mary Turner De Garmo, Introduction to Braille Music Transcription, Second Edition revised and edited by Lawrence R. Smith, Washington, DC: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, The Library of Congress, 2005.]
• BrailleM: The Braille Music List
• [Email list: "BrailleM is a place for discussing and learning about all aspects of braille music code. The list is designed to help beginners in Braille music and give them a place where they can ask questions of more experienced braille music users. The list will also be useful to more experienced users, who can discuss about more difficult passages and formats."]

Adobe Acrobat Reader
Free Download:

• Music Braille [Gerd Castan, Music Notation Links; an online Braille music manual, in Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF format.]

Bucket o' Tab [Windows] (Free)

• "Bucket o' Tab is a guitar tablature editor for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95/98." "Bucket o' Tab 2.5 is now freeware!"

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Cakewalk (About Us / Products / Events) [Windows]

• Desktop Music Handbook
• Supplementary third-party sites:
• JazzFonts [Sigler Music Fonts]

Calliope Music Notation Editor (SourceForge.net) [NeXTStep, MacOS X, GnuStep, All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes)]

Canorus (Reinhard Katzmann, Matevž Jekovec, Georg Rudolph, Leon Vinken; and see BerliOS) [Linux, Windows, MacOSX] (free)

• "Canorus is a free music score editor. It supports note writing, scripting support, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output and more! Note that Canorus is still in early stage of development and not nearly all the features are implemented yet!"
  "Canorus is free (libre) software, licensed under GNU GPL. This means that the program source code is available to public, anyone is welcome to research how the program works, participate in its development, freely distribute the program and spread the word!"
• "Canorus could be called the sequel of NoteEdit."
• For a brief review of Canorus see Dave Phillips, "Music Notation Software for Linux: a Progress Report, Part 1", Linux Journal, 31 March 2009.

[English site]	capella professional (Recordare)

capella (Capella Software [in German]) [Windows]

• International address (in English): capella

Recordare

Big Notation Bundle (Recordare)

• Distributor for the USA, Canada, and Puerto Rico: Recordare: The Big Notation Bundle (capella professional, capella-scan, and capella playAlong)

capella-scan (Recordare)

• capella-scan [capella] (converts scanned-in bitmaps to capella notation files and preserves the score's layout) [in English]
• capella Media Producer
• capriccio (MIDI sequencer software, designed to work with capella)
• audite!
• rondo

tonica and tonica plus (Recordare)

• tonica [capella] ("Four part harmony tutor and four part composition aid": "Tonica will teach you the basic rules of four part harmony and save you a large amount of time if you want to harmonize existing melodies.")
• capella-split

capella playAlong (Recordare)

• capella playAlong [capella]
• Die digitale Partiturbibliothek  /  [in English:] Score Library

CERL

CERL [see: Lime]

(Coda) MakeMusic! {Coda Music Technologies) [see: Allegro; Finale; NotePad; PrintMusic!; SongWriter; MakeMusic! {Coda Music Technologies)]

Common Music Notation [Bill Schottstaedt] [Macintosh, NeXTstep, SGI, & Linux and ACL or Clisp] (Free)

• more detail
• "CMN (Common Music Notation) is a free western music notation package written in Common Lisp."

Copyist

Copyist (Sion Software) [see: QuickScore Elite] [Windows]

Cubase (Steinberg / North America Site) [Macintosh & Windows]

Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology-DDBMT [See: Lime, Goodfeel Braille Music Translator (Lime to Braille conversion)]

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ccarh

DARMS: The Note-Processor Dialect [J. Stephen Dydo, in Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes: Online Resources (Eleanor Selfridge-Field, J. Stephen Dydo, & Walter B. Hewlett);¹ Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford University] [DOS]

• [see also: Lute Tablature Transcriber]

Datasonics [see: Music Master]

Denemo , a gtk+ frontend to GNU Lilypond [Matthew Hiller] [Linux & Windows] (free)

• "Denemo is the GNU graphical musical score editor, and serves as a frontend to Lilypond."
• See: Lilypond
• For a brief review of Denemo see Dave Phillips, "Music Notation Software for Linux: a Progress Report, Part 1", Linux Journal, 31 March 2009.

MagicScore

DG Software [see: MagicScore]

Django

Django Notation and Tablature Software: Musick's Handmade: Resources for Early Music and Tablature [Alain Veylit] [Windows]

• "Django is a tablature editor and composer for lutes, guitar, cittern, bandora, mandolin, gamba and other plucked instruments, such as banjo, ukulele, theorbo, mandora, dulcimer, etc.."
• Django download
• Previously StringWalker

??? Doremi, a shapenote font [Weelyrd Publishing] [Macintosh & Windows] ???

• "...a shapenote font that has the shapes for the systems used by Aiken, Funk, Walker, The New Harp of Columbia, and The Sacred Harp... . The package includes the printer and screen fonts for the postscript version, and a truetype version, templates for all shape systems set up for Finale versions 2.6.1 thru 2000, a printed Font Map showing the keystrokes needed to evoke each element of the font, and tips and hints for using Doremi with Finale to typeset shapenote music in a PDF document."

Emagic [legacy product support only]

Encore (Passport Design Systems, now owned by: gvox) [Macintosh & Windows]

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Finale (MakeMusic! {Coda Music Technologies}) [Macintosh & Windows]

• Finale Allegro
• Finale NotePad
• Finale SongWriter
• PrintMusic!
• Note from Coda: "A file from any Coda notation product is can be opened and edited by a same - or later version of our notation family."
• Finale MusicViewer ["...a web browser plug-in, is now available for sharing Finale files on the web. Download and install this software to view, play, transpose and/or print any Finale file saved as a web page."] [Windows] (free)
• Third Party Sites for Finale:
• additional information, plug-ins, "tool kits", productivity tips, etc.
• Fonts
• MOR (Music Objects Recognition) (Silpor Music Ltd) [Windows]
• "...software...for transforming computer rendered music to expressive music performances..."; and software for "...in-depth contextual harmony analysis...". "MOR Music technology brings to life deadpan computer playback by combining an Analysis Engine with Performance Parameters Processors. Music Objects such as cadences, voice hierarchy, appoggiaturas, rhythmic structures and score expressions are grouped into three categories: Global Infrastructure, Timeline Punctuation and Local Events. The Performance Parameters Processors, connected to the analyzed Music Objects, set values to sound parameters such as Tempo, Velocity and Duration according to performance presets." "Offered as a plug-in to Notation software, the introductory version of MOR Music is dedicated to the piano and other instruments with similar sound production method. The package includes a preset Editor and a high quality Steinway piano sample library."
• MOR Expressive Performance System: "The ultimate humanized performance system"
• MOR Chord Analyzer: "The most in-depth contextual harmony analysis system available"
• MOR piano sample: Radiant Virtual Piano
• Recordare MusicXML Converter: Dolet for Finale [Macintosh OS X] [MusicXML (Recordare)]
• MusicXML Software: listing of MusicXML programs using Finale, MuseData, TaBazar, abc, Sibelius, SharpEye Music Reader, PhotoScore, Django, Virtual Composer, MuseBook Score, capella playAlong, Score, MusicEase, Turandot, Igor Engraver, Personal Composer; and Beta/Prototype products for Lime, TablEdit, Guitar Pro, Guido, MuseScore, MusicXML Library, NoteEdit, KGuitar, XEMO, Nightingale, Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), NIFF, Rosegarden, Power Tab, BUZZle, middle C software, Harmony Assistant, HumDrum, LilyPond.
• Finale Discussion List [Information about subscribing to the list and the related WWW and FTP sites.]
• WWW Site for subscription to Finale Discussion List [To use this link you need the instructions at the above link.]

FList (Ararat Software) [see: Score]

Fonts of Music Symbols and Notation Software for use in Word Processors,   See:

•   Music Notation for MS Word (MagicScore)  
• Bach Musicological Font
• Metronome and MetTimes Fonts
• MusicTeacherTools.com
• Saint Meinrad Chant & Melody Fonts
• [For fonts intended to work with specific music notation software, see the individual software brand names.]

Footime [Neuratron; see: PhotoScore]

Lugert Verlag

Forte (Lugert Verlag - Materialien für Musikunterricht [in German]) [Windows]

• English site for Forte
• Français [French site for Forte]

Frescobaldi

Frescobaldi, a KDE4 frontend to GNU Lilypond [Wilbert Berendsen] [Linux & Windows] (free)

• See: Lilypond
• For a brief review of Frescobaldi see Dave Phillips, "Music Notation Software for Linux: a Progress Report, Part 1", Linux Journal, 31 March 2009.

Fripp (Julianne Sharer) [Linux] (Free)

• Fripp can act as a front end for Mup

Fronimo [DOS and Windows]

• More detail: A Brief Introduction to Fronimo [Mark Wheeler]
• For more information, send e-mail to Francesco Tribioli
• Fronimo e-mail discussion group

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G7 (Sibelius) [Macintosh & Windows]

• "...software for writing songs and playing better guitar. With G7, you can write tab, chords, lyrics and notation, learn songs and riffs with the on-screen fretboard - and even publish your music on the Internet."

GenieSoft Music Software [see: Overture and Score Writer]

GNU Denemo [see: Denemo]

Goodfeel Braille Music Translator (Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology-DDBMT)

• "Goodfeel automatically converts several kinds of music files to Braille - the same files used to print the score for sighted players. To prepare and transcribe these files with Goodfeel, you do not need to know how to read Braille music." [William R. McCann, Dancing Dots]
• [see also: Lime]

Graphire [see: Music Press]

Grégoire: Sheet music editing software for Gregorian chant [Windows] (Free)

Gscore [Sebastien Tricaud] [Linux] (Free) [and see: the abc musical notation language]

Gsharp [Robert Strandh] [Linux] (Free)

Guido Music Notation [Windows & ASCII/HTML: "...plain-text, i.e. readable and platform independent format...".] (Free)

• alternate address

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Guitarmaster (RoboSens) [Windows]

Guitar Pro [Windows]

• Screenshot

gvox [see: Encore, MusicTime]

Harmony Assistant	Melody Assistant
Optical Music easy Reader	PDFtoMusic
PDFtoMusic Pro	Virtual Singer
Melody Player	Myriad Music Plug-in

Harmony Assistant (Myriad Software) [Macintosh & Windows]

• Melody Assistant (shareware)
• OMeR (Optical Music easy Reader)
• ("...the printed music recognition add-on for Harmony Assistant and Melody Assistant")
• PDFtoMusic
• (PDFtoMusic converts PDF music files to sound files and to Myriad Software music format.)
• PDFtoMusic Pro
• ("From a PDF file, PDFtoMusic Pro extracts in a few seconds the music-related elements, and enables to play the score, or to export it in miscellaneous formats, like MusicXML, MIDI, Myr (Harmony Assistant files), or in a digital audio format like WAV ou AIFF.")
• Virtual Singer
• ("Virtual Singer is an additional module for Melody Assistant or Harmony Assistant. It will generate a human voice from the score lyrics: your computer will sing.")
• Melody Player
• (A freeware player for Harmony or Melody Assistant files.)
• Myriad Music Plug-in
• ("This plug-in enables to play, display, transpose and print files created with Melody Assistant or Harmony Assistant, directly from your web browser. Myriad Music Plug-In is freeware.")
• Resources

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iabc [see: the abc musical notation language]

Igor^TM (NoteHeads [formerly Technoligor AB]) [Macintosh & Windows]

• Downloads (Igor Engraver & Igor Reader)
• [Professional-level, powerful music notation software.]

  Impro-Visor (Bob Keller, Computer Science Department, Harvey Mudd College) [Java 1.5 or later (so : Macintosh {some}, Windows, Linux, etc.)] (free)  

• "Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised. The objective is to improve understanding of solo construction and tune chord changes. There are other, secondary, things it can do, such as improvise on its own. It has also been used for transcription. Because rhythm-section (e.g. piano, bass, drums) accompaniment is automatically generated from chords, Impro-Visor can be used as a play-along device. Now having a wider array of accompaniment styles, its use is not limited to jazz. Distributed with Impro-Visor is "The Imaginary Book", a chords-only fakebook with chord progressions to about 2500 tunes."
• The site includes Tutorial, Samples, Downloads, etc. Some MAC platform limitations are explained at the Download site.

Jam (PYVA-NET) [Windows]

Java Music Specification Language (algomusic.com) [Macintosh & Windows; multiple platforms]

• "JMSL is a Java API for music composition, interactive performance, and intelligent instrument design. With JMSL, the composer/programmer can create stand-alone musical applications or deploy applets on the web. JMSL supports JSyn, MidiShare, MidiPort, and JavaSound."

KGuitar

KGuitar (Mikhail Yakshin AKA GreyCat et al.) [Unix & Linux]) (free)

Kidnotes Font Package (DVM Publications) [Macintosh & Windows]

KlavarScript—klavar notation software (Marco van der Kolk) [Windows]

• Nederlands [Dutch]
• More information about the notation, Klavarskribo [Klavarskribo in het kort (Dutch)]
• Klavar Music Foundation of Great Britain

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LilyPond

LilyPond - The GNU Project Music Typesetter [Main address (development branch)]
           [Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, NeXTStep, IRIX, and Solaris; Windows]

• Mutopia: The LilyPond music archive
• Denemo , a gtk+ frontend to GNU Lilypond [Matthew Hiller] [Linux] (free)
• PowerTab Tools [PowerTab Tools contains a library for accessing PowerTab Tablature files (*.ptb) and utilities for converting .ptb files to ASCII and GNU LilyPond files.]
• Lilypond Guide For Beginners [Eugene Cormier, Classical Guitarist] (free) [introduction with additional Applications: "programs (Kommander scripts actually)...to help...create rudimentary music theory tests."]
• Lilypond: A Guide To Open Source Music Notation For Beginners [PDF file (so needs Adobe Acrobat Reader to view)] [mirror of the Guide at the Acadia Score Software Resources]
• For comments concerning the relationship of Lilypond to other Linux music software, see Dave Phillips, "Music Notation Software for Linux: a Progress Report, Part 1", Linux Journal, 31 March 2009.

Lime

Lime (CERL Sound Group) [Macintosh & Windows]

• Lime Music Notation Software for Macintosh
• Lime Music Notation Software for Windows95, Windows98, WindowsNT, Windows2000, WindowsME, WindowsXP
• How To Familiarize Yourself With Lime
• Lime Version History (What's New In Lime)
• Pre-Release Version of Lime
• Goodfeel Braille Music Translator [Lime to Braille conversion] (Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology—DDBMT)
• Additional Information [MIDI Classics]
• Fonts (third-party sites)

Linux Music Notation Software

• See:
• abc Music Notation Editors
• Brahms
• Calliope Music Notation Editor
• Canorus
• Common Music Notation
• Denemo
• Frescobaldi
• Fripp
• Gscore
• Gsharp
• Guido
• Impro-Visor
• KGuitar
• LilyPond
• Mup
• Muscript
• MuseScore and MusE
• MusicEdit
• MusicXML
• MusiXTeX
• MuX2d
• NoteEdit
• NtEd
• Philip's Music Writer (PMW)
• Project XEMO ???
• Rosegarden
• Tab
• Xenoage Player
• See also:
• Music Notation Editors (Sound & MIDI Software For Linux)
• Dave Phillips, "Music Notation Software for Linux: a Progress Report, Part 1", Linux Journal, 31 March 2009; ...Part 2", Linux Journal, 22 April 2009.

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Logic (see: Emagic) [legacy product support only]

Lute Tablature Transcriber [Paul Beier, MusIco] [DOS] (Freeware)

• "The Lute Tablature Transcriber is a 'helper' program for The Note Processor, a DOS music notation program."
• [See: DARMS: The Note-Processor Dialect]

MagicScore

MagicScore (DG Software) [Windows]

• MagicScore Maestro [professional level: "...a music notation software application with extended editing capabilities and internal spell-checker. It features a variety of input methods - virtual keyboard, external MIDI devices, or an extended set of musical note symbols. The program comes with a virtual piano and virtual fingerboard for six and seven-string guitars. The built-in notes play-back feature allows users to listen to the newly created piece of music as if performed by a single instrument or by an entire orchestra."]
• MagicScore Classic ["...provides all general tools for working with scores implementing common musical grammar."]
• MagicScore School ["...offering the most advanced capabilities for music schools, students. teahers and music lovers."]

Music Notation for MS Word

•   Music Notation for MS Word  
• "...a music notation editing product that allows musicians to embed, edit and publish music notation in convenient Microsoft Word environment. The new product is easy to learn, and offers point-and-click transposing while supporting computer and MIDI keyboards, virtual piano keyboards and guitar fingerboards for composing music.
• Information in Russian
• SharpEye Music Scanning Software ["...we resell SharpEye with discount via our site."]

MakeMusic! {Coda Music Technologies) [see: Allegro; Finale; NotePad; SongWriter; PrintMusic!]

Melody Assistant

Melody Assistant & Melody Player (shareware, Myriad Software) [see: Harmony Assistant] [Macintosh & Windows])

Metronome and MetTimes Fonts (DVM Publications [Macintosh & Windows] [fonts for use in word processors])

• details

middle C software [optical music recognition software]

MidiIllustrator

MidiIllustrator (Rallentando Software) [Windows]

• "MidiIllustrator brings your favourite songs and musical works to life, generating high quality, dynamic scores from 1000s of Midi files freely available on the World Wide Web."

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MidiNotate [now Notation Composer; see: Notation Software, Inc.]

MidiScor (Ararat Software) [see: Score]

MidiScorWrite (Ararat Software) [see: Score]

• MIDI and NIFF conversion for Score notation software.

miniMusic NotePad (miniMusic) [PalmOS]

• miniMusic Handheld Music Suite (NotePad, BeatPad, BugBand, and EarTrain)
• miniMusic software

Mozart: The Music Processor (David Webber) [Windows]

• Site Map
• The Mozart discussion forum
• Samples

Braeburn Software

MP Scan [scanning add-on module for Music Publisher (Braeburn Software)] [Windows]

Mup (Arkkra Enterprises) [Macintosh, DOS/Windows, Linux & Unix]

• "Mup produces high-quality PostScript or MIDI output from a text file input. It supports both regular and tablature notation. Ready-to-run versions are available for Linux x86, MS-DOS, Unix x86, and Mac, and the C source code is available for running Mup on other systems." (Statement by Arkkra Enterprises)]
• Summary of Mup features | Obtaining a copy of Mup
• Mup User's Guide | Samples Mup output file (PostScript): 1, 2

Muscript

Muscript [Peter Billam] [Linux, Unix, Macintosh, DOS/Windows] (free)

• "Muscript is a language for typesetting music, and a Perl script which translates this language either into PostScript or into MIDI."

Muse [Laurie Griffiths] [Windows] (shareware)

• Main features of Muse

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MuseScore [Windows, Macintosh, & Linux] and MusE [Werner Schweer] [Linux] (both free)

• "MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licenced under GNU GPL."
• "MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities."
• For a brief review of MuseScore see Dave Phillips, "Music Notation Software for Linux: a Progress Report, Part 2", Linux Journal, 22 April 2009.

MusEdit (Yowza Software) [Windows]

• Web Site Contents | Samples | Downloadable Demos of MusEdit and Sample Scores

Musette (Don Rowe, Canzona Music) [Windows] (free)

• Français [French site for Musette]

Musicator

Musicator (Musicator USA) [Windows]

MusicEase [Windows]

• details
• Standard Version
• MusicEase Professional

Samples:
Shape Note	Beethoven	Mahler	Scott Joplin	Hymn
Christmas	ensemble	tablature [guitar]	Bach Invention	Folk song

MusicEdit [Prof. Herbert Walz] [(in German); Linux & Windows]

• English site for MusicEdit

Music Engraving Software Utilities [Jan J. de Kloe]: SIP; SipText; SipXML; SipXref; SipSplit; SipSib; SipThema; SipFind; SipPMXin; etc.

Music Master

Music Master (Datasonics) [Windows]

• Music Master Performa
• Music Master Professional
• Music Master Sample Notation
• VS Pro [Roland VS series Digital Audio Workstations]
• Datasonics Frequently Asked Questions

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??? Music Press (Graphire) [Macintosh & Windows] ???

Braeburn Software

Music Publisher (Braeburn Software) [Windows]

• Building a score with Music Publisher
• MP Scan [scanning add-on module for Music Publisher]

MusicTeacherTools.com

• Music Fonts
• MusicEd© Collection
• MusicEd Fingerings©

MusicTime Deluxe (Passport Design Systems—now owned by: gvox) [Macintosh & Windows]

MusicXML

MusicXML (Recordare)

• Recordare MusicXML Converter: Dolet for Finale [Windows & Macintosh]; Dolet v. 2 for Finale [Macintosh OS X]; Dolet for Sibelius [Windows & Macintosh]
• MusicXML Software: listing of MusicXML programs using Finale, MuseData, TaBazar, abc, Sibelius, SharpEye Music Reader, PhotoScore, Django, Virtual Composer, MuseBook Score, capella playAlong, Score, MusicEase, Turandot, Igor Engraver, Personal Composer; and Beta/Prototype products for Lime, TablEdit, Guitar Pro, Guido, MuseScore, MusicXML Library, NoteEdit, KGuitar, XEMO, Nightingale, Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), NIFF, Rosegarden, Power Tab, BUZZle, middle C software, Harmony Assistant, HumDrum, LilyPond.

Musitek [see: SmartScore]

MusiXTeX / MusicTeX / MuTeX (Werner Icking Music Archive [Werner Icking])

• FTP directory
• See also the abc musical notation language
• MuX2d: "...a WYSIWYM(ean) editor for MusiXTeX - a macro package for typesetting music with TeX." [Lukas Grützmacher]

Mutopia: The LilyPond music archive [see: LilyPond]

Myriad Software [see: Harmony Assistant]

Myriad Music Plug-in (Myriad Software) [see: Harmony Assistant] (free)

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Neuratron [see: AudioScore Professional; PhotoScore; Sibelius]

Nightingale

Nightingale (Adept Music Notation Solutions, Inc.) [Macintosh]

Adobe Acrobat Reader
Free Download:

• NightLight: a freeware version of Nightingale (limited to 4 page scores and 9 staves per system)
• Samples: Music by Pamela J. Marshall (Spindrift Music Company):
  
1.  In Adobe Acrobat format;      2.  Viewable in browser

Notation Composer; Notation Player; Notation Musician; [see: Notation Software, Inc.]

Notation Software, Inc.

• Notation Products
• Notation Composer
• Notation Composer converts music MIDI files to music notation and allows editing of the notation and the MIDI files.
• Notation Musician
• "Notation Musician converts music MIDI files to dynamic sheet music..." and allows some editing of the MIDI files.
• Notation Player (free)
• "The free Notation Player downloads and displays music (MIDI) files as sheet music that you can view on the screen while the notes play, and also print."

Notation Technologies [see: Play Music]

NoteAbilityPro [Keith Hamel, Opus1 Music Software] [Macintosh]

• NoteWriter ["...a graphics-oriented music notation package."]
• NoteAbility Lite ["...a scaled down and simplified version of the NoteAbilityPro... ."]

NoteEdit - A Score Editor [discontinued; Linux]

• New versions: NtEd, Canorus, & BerliOS Developer
• Old link; just basic information now. [The original production of NoteEdit by Jörg Anders is discontinued. See Discontinuation FAQ.]

Noteflight [online WWW application]

• "Noteflight® is an online application that lets you display, edit, print and play back music notation with professional quality, right in your web browser. You can work on a musical score from any computer on the Internet, share it with other users, and embed it in your own pages. And it's free for individual use."
• Noteflight is available in two versions:
• Noteflight Score Editor (make music): "Noteflight is a new online service that lets written music take full advantage of the web. The Noteflight Score Editor is a full-featured application that displays, edits, prints and plays back music notation in any standard web browser. You can create your own scores, choose to share them with others, or publish them to Noteflight's browsable, searchable online library of music. And it doesn't cost a thing: Noteflight.com is free for individual use." (free)
• Noteflight Learning Edition (teach music): "Noteflight Learning Edition is an online service designed for music educators. Available by monthly or yearly subscription, it's based on the Noteflight Score Editor, a full-featured notation tool that runs in any standard web browser." "Share musical scores, activities and assignments with students effortlessly. All your materials are accessible from any online computer from the moment they're created. Students can access and work with them wherever they happen to be, on any computer—in the classroom, at a bandmate's house, or at home. And you can prepare or review work from anywhere! And for K-12 teachers in need of a simple hosted solution, we’ve partnered with Haiku Learning Systems to provide an integration with their elegant Haiku LMS product... ."
• Noteflight imports and exports MusicXML, so users' files can communicate with other programs.
• While users' content is stored at the Noteflight WWW site, copyright of an individual's content is retained by that individual: (From Noteflight Terms of Use) "We respect authors' and content holders' rights. Therefore, it is Noteflight's policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA")."
• Help

NoteHeads [see: Igor^TM]

NotePad [MakeMusic! {Coda Music Technologies); see: Finale] [Macintosh & Windows]

Note Processor [see: DARMS: The Note-Processor Dialect; Lute Tablature Transcriber]

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NoteWorthy Composer (NoteWorthy SoftWare, Inc.) [Windows]

• NoteWorthy Composer is "a music composition and notation processor for Windows. It allows you to create, record, edit, print, and play back your own musical scores. It will import *.mid files."
• screen shot | download | readme.txt
• NoteWorthy Player (free)
• A freeware player that will load, notate, and play standard MIDI files, so it can be used a standard MIDI player. It will also load and play files created by registered users of the NoteWorthy Composer program.
• NoteWorthy Composer Browser Plug-in (free)
• "The NoteWorthy Composer Browser Plug-in extends the capabilities of your web browser to include the display, play back and printing of *.nwc (NoteWorthy Composer) song files. NoteWorthy Composer allows you to create, record, edit, print, and play back your own musical scores. As an NWC user and web page designer, show your *.nwc song files in action on your site by embedding the song files to display in the NWC Browser Plug-in."

Notion Music Composition and Performance Software [Virtuosoworks] [Windows]

npc Imaging

NtEd (J.Anders) [Linux] (free)

• See also: NoteEdit
• For a brief review of NtEd see Dave Phillips, "Music Notation Software for Linux: a Progress Report, Part 2", Linux Journal, 22 April 2009.

Octava English site

Octava (Obtiv) [(in German); Windows]

• English site for Octava

OMeR

OMeR (Myriad Software) [Macintosh & Windows]

• ("...the printed music recognition add-on for Harmony Assistant and Melody Assistant.")

Online applications,   See:

• Noteflight
• Tab lute tablature software

Opus [see: Vivaldi Software]

Opus1 Music Software [see: NoteAbilityPro Music Notation Software]

Opus Technologies

Overture (GenieSoft Music Software) [Macintosh & Windows]

Passport [see: gvox; Encore, MusicTime]

PDFtoMusic and PDFtoMusic Pro [see: Harmony Assistant]

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Personal Composer (Personal Composer Inc.) [Windows]

Philip's Music Writer (PMW) (Philip Hazel) [Unix & Linux]

PhotoScore

PhotoScore [Scanning software for Sibelius, MusicXML, NIFF, and MIDI editing software (Neuratron)] [Macintosh & Windows]

• Two versions: PhotoScore Professional and PhotoScore MIDI Lite.
• Scanning software: "The new version of PhotoScore Professional now saves MusicXML and NIFF files in addition to MIDI and its own 'Scanned music' format (for Sibelius), so it can be used with all major music editing programs. It now also transposes, prints, and plays back the entire score with astonishing realism using Espressivo technology licensed from Sibelius Software. In addition it now reads 4 and 6 line guitar tablature and guitar chord diagrams."
• Download Demo
• Footime Page Turner [Bili, Inc]: "PhotoScore (all versions) has a new 'Performance Mode' to accommodate this." "Scan sheet music into your computer and read it directly off the screen using PhotoScore® music scanning, recognition and performance formatting software; ...Easy to use - free your hands by using your feet to turn pages...included FREE with PhotoScore MIDI Lite and PhotoScore Professional when purchased from...[the Neuratron]...website."

Pizzicato (Arpege Musique)] [Macintosh & Windows]

• English site for Pizzicato

Play Music (Notation Technologies) [Windows]

PowerTab Tools [see: LilyPond]

PriMus (Columbus Soft) [Macintosh & Windows]

PrintMusic! (MakeMusic! {Coda Music Technologies)) [Macintosh & Windows]

??? Project XEMO (Xemus Software LLC) ???

Pyware Music Writer ?? (Pygraphics) [Macintosh]

• [This software is no longer available. Pygraphics states: "We will, however, continue to support registered owners."]

QuickScore Elite and Copyist for Windows (Sion Software) [Windows]

• sample pages
• "QuickScore Elite is comprehensive, integrated software for music composition, incorporating notation, arranging, MIDI sequencing and recording together in one package."
• "...Copyist treats notes, staves, clefs and other musical characters as graphical elements, ...[so the user can] put musical objects on the page regardless of musical rules. This freedom allows you to easily create small excerpts to be included in work that is predominantly text, as well as very complex scores which are difficult to create using software which must follow musical rules."
• Voyetra Turtle Beach (www.voyetra-turtle-beach.com) also has rights to market Sion Software Music Notation products.

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MusicXML

Recordare (MusicXML)

• Recordare MusicXML Software
• An Introduction to MusicXML: An introduction to our Dolet and MusicXML products.
• Recordare MusicXML Converter: Dolet for Finale [Windows & Macintosh]; Dolet for Sibelius [Windows & Macintosh]
  • MusicXML Software: listing of MusicXML programs using Finale, MuseData, TaBazar, abc, Sibelius, SharpEye Music Reader, PhotoScore, Django, Virtual Composer, MuseBook Score, capella playAlong, Score, MusicEase, Turandot, Igor Engraver, Personal Composer; and Beta/Prototype products for Lime, TablEdit, Guitar Pro, Guido, MuseScore, MusicXML Library, NoteEdit, KGuitar, XEMO, Nightingale, Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), NIFF, Rosegarden, Power Tab, BUZZle, middle C software, Harmony Assistant, HumDrum, LilyPond.
• SharpEye Music Reader [music scanning software]
• See also: capella

RoboSens [see: Guitarmaster]

Rosegarden

Rosegarden [Chris Cannam, Andy Green, and Richard Bown; chord naming and filter code contributed by Guillaume Laurent) [Unix or OpenVMS with the X window system & Linux] (free)

• Download

Saint Meinrad Chant & Melody Fonts (Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Liturgical Music Office) [fonts for use in word processors]

Salieri

Salieri

• "...an interactive software environment for structure oriented composition, manipulation and analysis of music, which can be downloaded from this website."

Scanning Software for Music

Adobe Acrobat Reader
Free Download:

• Scanning Music – Easier Than You Think! (Summary of Music Scanning Software, with mini reviews, comments on method and effectiveness, etc.) [Kelly's Music & Computers; also available as PDF file (needs Adobe Acrobat Reader to view)]
• capella-scan (converts scanned-in bitmaps to capella notation files and preserves the score's layout) [Windows]

OMeR

• OMeR ["...the printed music recognition add-on for Harmony Assistant and Melody Assistant: Myriad Software] [Macintosh & Windows]
• middle C software
• MP Scan [scanning add-on module for Music Publisher (Braeburn Software)] [Windows]

PhotoScore

• PhotoScore (Neuratron) [Macintosh & Windows]
• Two versions: PhotoScore Professional and PhotoScore MIDI Lite.
• "The new version of PhotoScore Professional now saves MusicXML and NIFF files in addition to MIDI and its own 'Scanned music' format (for Sibelius), so it can be used with all major music editing programs. It now also transposes, prints, and plays back the entire score with astonishing realism using Espressivo technology licensed from Sibelius Software. In addition it now reads 4 and 6 line guitar tablature and guitar chord diagrams."
• Download Demo
• SharpEye Music Reader [see Sharpeye Music Reader; MusicXML] [NIFF: Notation Interchange File Format (NIFF) (Alan Belkin, University of Montreal).]
• SmartScore (Musitek) [Windows & Macintosh]
• Scan, play back, edit, transpose, part extraction, file exchange.
• Exports to Finale, MusicXML, NIFF
• SmartScore Professional Edition (Academic pricing available).
• SmartScore Songbook Edition
• SmartScore Piano Edition
• SmartScore Midi Edition
• SmartScore Guitar Edition
• Download Demo
• Vivaldi Scan [see: Vivaldi Software]

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Score Links

ScorCounter (Ararat Software) [see: Score]

Score (San Andreas Press) [DOS & Windows]

•   WINSCORE (Score 5) [observations on new features by Stephen Gibson, New Notations London]  
• The Score List: The Score Users' Group Forum       |      Score Links
• San Andreas Press Download Page (upgrades for Score 4)

The Score Viewer, Score Preview
Free Download:

• What is SCORE? [Thomas Weber (with assistance from Christoph Lehmann and members of the Score user list {George A. McGuire being one them}): a brief introduction to the Score music notation software.]
• Online Utilities, Draw Files, and Samples for Score Users (to download)
• Links to Individual Score Users WWW Sites
• Institutions, Ensembles, and Businesses using Score
• Score Preview: A Viewer for Score Music Files (free)
• See also: npc Imaging (Santa Rosa, California); New Notations (London)
• Ararat Software; see New Notations (London): FList; MidiScor; MidiScorWrite; ScorCounter; ScorEdit
• Music Engraving Software Utilities [Jan J. de Kloe]: SIP; SipText; SipXML; SipXref; SipSplit; SipSib; SipThema; SipFind; SipPMXin; etc.
• Samples of Score notation [Samples include examples of extended notation practices of new music.]

ScorEdit (Ararat Software) [see: Score]

Score Perfect Professional (Scoretec) [Macintosh & Windows]

• [Originally for Atari, but now also avaliable on windows platforms and for Macintosh. Sites are in German.]

Score Writer (GenieSoft Music Software) [Macintosh & Windows]

• Fonts (third-party sites)

SharpEye Music Reader

• Recordare Music Finale Converter [MusicXML (Recordare)]
  • MusicXML Software: listing of MusicXML programs using Finale, MuseData, TaBazar, abc, Sibelius, SharpEye Music Reader, PhotoScore, Django, Virtual Composer, MuseBook Score, capella playAlong, Score, MusicEase, Turandot, Igor Engraver, Personal Composer; and Beta/Prototype products for Lime, TablEdit, Guitar Pro, Guido, MuseScore, MusicXML Library, NoteEdit, KGuitar, XEMO, Nightingale, Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), NIFF, Rosegarden, Power Tab, BUZZle, middle C software, Harmony Assistant, HumDrum, LilyPond.

Sibelius Demo
Free Download:
The Sibelius Viewer, Scorch
Free Download:
	G7

Sibelius [Macintosh & Windows]

• Sibelius Discussion List [Yahoo! Groups location to subscribe to the list (or contact Kelly's Music & Computers at kelly@kellysmusic.mb.ca).]
• The Sibelius Viewer, Scorch (free)
• G7: "...software for writing songs and playing better guitar. With G7, you can write tab, chords, lyrics and notation, learn songs and riffs with the on-screen fretboard - and even publish your music on the Internet."
• PhotoScore (Neuratron) [Macintosh & Windows]
  • Three versions: PhotoScore Professional, PhotoScore MIDI, and PhotoScore MIDI Lite.
  • Scanning software: "The new version of PhotoScore Professional now saves MusicXML and NIFF files in addition to MIDI and its own 'Scanned music' format (for Sibelius), so it can be used with all major music editing programs. It now also transposes, prints, and plays back the entire score with astonishing realism using Espressivo technology licensed from Sibelius Software. In addition it now reads 4 and 6 line guitar tablature and guitar chord diagrams."
  • Download Demo
• Recordare MusicXML Converter: Dolet for Sibelius [Windows & Macintosh]
• MusicXML Software: listing of MusicXML programs using Finale, MuseData, TaBazar, abc, Sibelius, SharpEye Music Reader, PhotoScore, Django, Virtual Composer, MuseBook Score, capella playAlong, Score, MusicEase, Turandot, Igor Engraver, Personal Composer; and Beta/Prototype products for Lime, TablEdit, Guitar Pro, Guido, MuseScore, MusicXML Library, NoteEdit, KGuitar, XEMO, Nightingale, Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), NIFF, Rosegarden, Power Tab, BUZZle, middle C software, Harmony Assistant, HumDrum, LilyPond.
• Fonts (third-party sites)

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Score Links

Sincrosoft [see: Vivaldi Software]

Sion Software [see: QuickScore Elite] [Windows]

SIP: Music Engraving Software Utilities [Jan J. de Kloe]: SIP; SipText; SipXML; SipXref; SipSplit; SipSib; SipThema; SipFind; SipPMXin; etc.

SmartScore (Musitek) [Windows & Macintosh]

• Music scoring and music scanning software.
• Exports to Finale, MusicXML, NIFF
• SmartScore Professional Edition (Academic pricing available).
• Download Demo

Songworks II Polyphonic (Ars Nova Software) [Macintosh & Windows]

• File Downloads

SongWriter (MakeMusic! {Coda Music Technologies) [see: Finale] [Macintosh & Windows]

Spe-Not Kkt. [see: Turandot]

Steinberg [see: Cubase]

StringWalker Tablature Sequencer [Alain Veylit] [Windows]

• "StringWalker has now been phased out and replaced by Django."

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Tab lute tablature software [Wayne Cripps] [Macintosh, Windows, Unix, Linux, & DOS, and by e-mail]

• TabHelper: a GUI frontend for TAB, "TabHelper is a Freeware Windows application that allows the creation of Lute and Guitar tabulature files using Microsoft Excel as the editing environment." [Luke Orlando Emmet, Marmalade Foo]
• Introduction
• Screenshots
• Download
• Samples
• Sample scores (many): Tablature in PDF and PostScript [Wayne Cripps]

TaBazar [Peer Smola (in German)] [Windows]

• English version

TablEdit [Macintosh & Windows]

• "TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments...TablEdit has developed support for harmonica, mountain dulcimer, diatonic accordion, drums, violin, tin whistle, recorder, and banjo (even taking into consideration the special aspect of the fifth string). TablEdit can open/import ASCII, MIDI, ABC, Bucket o' Tab, Tabestry and Wayne Cripps files [Tab], as well as files created by earlier versions of TablEdit. Files can be saved in TablEdit format or exported to ASCII, ABC or MIDI formats."

TabTrax (2112design) [Windows]

• "Instantly convert any drum tab to standard sheet music notation and playable MIDI music."

Tabs, Lyrics & Chords (Westcom Software) [Windows]

Technoligor AB (formerly Igor Technologies, now NoteHeads) [see: Igor^TM]

Optek Systems

Toccata (Optek Systems) [Windows]

• Toccata may be used "to quickly produce accurate Braille music in a variety of formats, either from scanned sheet music, [from MIDI,] or from scratch, using Toccata's Notation Editor...".

Turandot (Spe-Not Kkt.) [Windows]

• sample scores

Unix Music Notation Software, See:

• abc Music Notation Editors
• Calliope Music Notation Editor
• KGuitar
• LilyPond
• Mup
• Muscript
• Philip's Music Writer
• Rosegarden
• Tab

Virtual Singer (Myriad Software) [see: Harmony Assistant]

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Score Links

Virtuosoworks [see: Notion Music Composition and Performance Software]

Vivaldi Software (VivaldiStudio) [Macintosh & Windows]

• Vivaldi Gold: "Professional notation software, intuitive and equipped with an incredible array of functions, adapted to the needs of every type of user."
• Vivaldi Plus [entry-level notation software]
• Vivaldi Scan

Voyetra Turtle Beach [Windows]

contact information:    (800)233-9377 (continental US only)    (914)966-0600 (outside the US)    (914)966-1102 (general fax)    sales@voyetra.com

• MusicWrite
• MusicWrite Songwriter
• MusicWrite Maestro
• other Voyetra products
• Fonts (third-party sites)

VS Pro (Datasonics) [see: Music Master]

Wedelmusic [Paolo Nesi] [XML compliant format]

??? Weelyrd Publishing ??? [see: Doremi]

Wildcat Canyon Software [see: Autoscore]

Wolfgang [Etienne Darbellay & Jean-François Marti] [Macintosh & Windows] (in French)

Worship Studio & Composer (WorshipMusic.com) [Windows]

??? Xemo ??? [see: Project XEMO]

??? Xemus Software LLC ??? [see: Project XEMO]

Xenoage Player

Xenoage Player [Xenoage Software] [Linux, Macintosh, Windows, Solaris] (free)

• "Xenoage Player is a program written in Java that plays MusicXML files and allows to save them as Standard MIDI files. It is available as a standalone application and an applet for webpages. From version 0.4 on it supports also MusicXML 2.0 files."

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Score Links

XML for music notation,   See:

• Music Engraving Software Utilities
• Noteflight

Recordare MusicXML

• Recordare MusicXML
  • Recordare MusicXML Definition
• Wedelmusic
• XML and Music [Cover Pages, Oasis]

Xenoage Player

• Xenoage Player

Yowza Software [see: MusEdit]

1. The www site "is an electronic extension to the book", Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes, edited by Eleanor Selfridge-Field (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1997). See: MIT Press: Beyond MIDI, The Handbook of Musical Codes <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3297>.

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