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
• iabc [Aaron Newman]
• "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
• 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."
• abcMIDI package [James Allwright]
• abctab2ps [Christoph Dalitz]
• "...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...".]

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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... ."

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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)

Bardon Enterprises [see: BarScribe]

BarFly [Phil Taylor] [Macintosh] (Free)

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

BarScribe [Bardon Enterprises] [Windows]

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

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
• Toccata
• 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."]

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• 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]

[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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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

MagicScore

DG Software [see: MagicScore]

Django

Django Notation and Tablature Software [Alain Veylit] [Windows]

• "...seeks to be a comprehensive editor for early music."
• 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 [see: Logic]

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

• sample score [PDF file (so needs Adobe Acrobat Reader to view)]

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

• Finale Allegro
• Finale Guitar
• Finale NotePad (free download)
• Finale NotePad Plus
• 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)

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• Notation Software Feature Comparison: Finale, Allegro, Finale Guitar, PrintMusic!, Songwriter, NotePad Plus, and NotePad [Comparison by MakeMusic! {Coda Music Technologies)] [PDF file (needs Adobe Acrobat Reader to view)]
• Third Party Sites for Finale:
• additional information, plug-ins, "tool kits", productivity tips, etc.
• Fonts
• Recordare MusicXML Converter: Dolet for Finale v. 1.5 [Windows & Macintosh]; Dolet v. 2 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, Plaine and Easie (for RISM: pae2xml "for converting music in the plain & easy format to MusicXML"), Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), NIFF, Rosegarden, Power Tab, BUZZle, middle C software, MIDI, 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 for use in Word Processors,   See:

• Bach Musicological Font
• Metronome and MetTimes Fonts
• Saint Meinrad 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] [Windows]

Fronimo [DOS and Windows]

• Apparently, there is no "official" WWW site for Fronimo. The site given here is from the Lute Society of America WWW site.
• 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]

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

• alternate address

Guitarmaster (RoboSens) [Windows]

Guitar Pro [Windows]

• Screenshot

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gvox [see: Encore, MusicTime]

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")
• Melody Player
• ("The freeware player for Harmony or Melody Assistant files.")
• Myriad Music Plug-in
• ("Free plug-in for your web browser. Play, display, save, transpose and print music pieces published on the web. Enables you to publish your own music scores." [Beta])

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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.]

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."

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

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]

Lime

Lime (CERL Sound Group) [Macintosh & Windows]

• Lime Music Notation Software for Macintosh
• Lime Music Notation Software for Windows95, Windows98, and WindowsNT
• 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)

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Linux Music Notation Software

• Sound and MIDI Software For Linux: Music Notation [Hans Fugal]
• See:
• abc Music Notation Editors
• Brahms
• Common Music Notation
• Denemo
• Gscore
• Guido
• LilyPond
• MusE
• MusicEdit
• MusicXML
• MusiXTeX
• MuX2d
• Note Editor on Linux
• PMW
• Project XEMO
• Rosegarden
• Tab

Logic (Emagic) [Macintosh]

• [Emagic products for Windows are now discontinued.]

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]
• 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."]
• Information in Russian

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

Mark of the Unicorn

Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) [see: Mosaic]

Melody Assistant

Melody Assistant (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 (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 (Notation Software, Inc.) [Windows]

• "Searches and downloads MIDI files from the Internet...Converts MIDI files to music notation that can be immediately viewed on the screen...Includes special options for practicing music with accompaniment...Plays back MIDI files while displaying the music notes...Prints sheet music with many flexible options...Lets you correct errors that MidiNotate might make in transcribing the MIDI to music."

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

Mark of the Unicorn

Mosaic (MOTU—Mark of the Unicorn) [Macintosh]

• "State-of-the-art music desktop publishing software for the Macintosh."

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

• Table of Contents

  Samples (These also can be downloaded as Mozart .mz files):
  a sextet score music zoomed in			|	score for six saxophones	|	samples of printed output: 1, 2, 3, 4
  "Creating a new piece"	|	"Swing!"	|	"TrueType Music Font"	|	"Users' contributions"

• The Mozart discussion forum

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 and MusE - Linux Music Editor [Werner Schweer] [Linux] (free)

• "MuseScore is the MusE music typesetter."
• "MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities."

MusEdit (Yowza Software) [Windows]

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

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

Musicator

Musicator (Musicator USA) [Windows]

• Notation

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] [Linux & Windows]

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]

Music Publisher (Braeburn Software) [Windows]

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

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, Plaine and Easie (for RISM: pae2xml "for converting music in the plain & easy format to MusicXML"), Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), NIFF, Rosegarden, Power Tab, BUZZle, middle C software, MIDI, 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]

Myriad Software [see: Harmony Assistant]

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Neuratron [see: AudioScore Professional; PhotoScore; Sibelius]

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

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• 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):
  
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Notation Software, Inc. [see: MidiNotate]

Notation Technologies [see: Play Music]

NoteEdit - A Score Editor [new version in beta: BerliOS Developer] [Linux]

• Old version. [The original production of NoteEdit by Jörg Anders is discontinued. See Discontinuation FAQ.]

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

• NoteWriter ["...a graphics-oriented music notation package."]

NoteHeads [see: Igor^TM]

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

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

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

Octava (Obtiv) [Windows]

OMeR

OMeR (Myriad Software) [Macintosh & Windows]

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

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Opus [see: Vivaldi Software]

Opus1 Music Software [see: NoteAbility Music Notation Software]

Overture (GenieSoft Music Software) [Macintosh & Windows]

Partita [see: Finale, Sibelius]

Passport [see: gvox; Encore, MusicTime]

Personal Composer (Personal Composer Inc.) [Windows]

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

PhotoScore

PhotoScore [Scanning software for Sibelius, MusicXML, NIFF, and MIDI editing software (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
• 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."

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Pizzicato (Arpege Musique)] [Macintosh & Windows]

Play Music (Notation Technologies) [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 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, Plaine and Easie (for RISM: pae2xml "for converting music in the plain & easy format to MusicXML"), Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), NIFF, Rosegarden, Power Tab, BUZZle, middle C software, MIDI, Harmony Assistant, HumDrum, LilyPond.
• SharpEye Music Reader [music scanning software]
• See also: capella

RoboSens [see: Guitarmaster]

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

Salieri

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

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Scanning Software for Music

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• 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]
• Three versions: PhotoScore Professional, PhotoScore MIDI, 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]

ScorCounter (Ararat Software) [see: Score]

Score (San Andreas Press) [DOS & Windows]

• 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.]

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ScorEdit (Ararat Software) [see: Score]

Score Perfect Professional (Columbus Soft & 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, Plaine and Easie (for RISM: pae2xml "for converting music in the plain & easy format to MusicXML"), Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), NIFF, Rosegarden, Power Tab, BUZZle, middle C software, MIDI, 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

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• 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, Plaine and Easie (for RISM: pae2xml "for converting music in the plain & easy format to MusicXML"), Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), NIFF, Rosegarden, Power Tab, BUZZle, middle C software, MIDI, Harmony Assistant, HumDrum, LilyPond.
• Fonts (third-party sites)

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

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]

• Sample scores (many): Tablature in PostScript form

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

• English version
• notation samples: Guitar tablature with notation ("Adelita"); Percussion-Demo

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."
• sample screenshot

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

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

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:
• LilyPond
• Mup
• Philip's Music Writer
• Rosegarden
• Tab

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

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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 Edition
• other Voyetra products
• Fonts (third-party sites)

VS Pro (Datasonics) [see: Music Master]

Wedelmusic [Paolo Nesi] [XML compliant format]

Weelyrd Publishing [see: Doremi]

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Wildcat Canyon Software [see: Autoscore]

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

Worship Studio (WorshipMusic.com) [Windows 98 and earlier]

Xemo [see: Project XEMO]

Xemus Software LLC [see: Project XEMO]

XML for music notation,   See:

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

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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