List of music notation programs
Tabular comparison of music notation programs .
WYSIWYG music notation programs
Paid
The following are fee-based music notation programs with WYSIWYG - user listed. Special features, unique selling points or areas of application can be found in the penultimate column. The last column lists music publishers who use or have used the respective program to publish scores.
| Program (full version) | Slimmed down variants | Company / authors | Windows | Mac | Linux | Special features / comments | In use by the following publishers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| capella | capella 1200, capella reader | capella software | Yes | Version 8 | With Wine | Linux possible via emulator or WINE. See: Extensive extensions and automations possible through own and freely available Python scripts. z. E.g .: sheet music and tablatures, for Styrian harmonica, Schwyzerörgeli and Morino club model, guitar and much more. Please refer: | |
| Dorico Pro | Dorico Elements, Dorico SE | Steinberg | Yes | Yes | No | Is programmed by former Sibelius developers. | B-Note Musikverlag , Kistner & Siegel |
| Encore | MusicTime Deluxe | Passport Music Software | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| final | PrintMusic, SongWriter, SongBook (iPad app) | MakeMusic, distribution: Klemm | Yes | Yes | No | Berliner Chormusik-Verlag, Carus-Verlag , Warner Bros. , G. Henle Verlag , Verlag Dohr u. a. | |
| Forte (Premium) | Forte Home, Forte Basic | Lugert Publishing House | Yes | No | No | supports fingering of the Styrian harmonica (from version 10, year 2018) | |
| Guitar Pro | mySongBook | Arobas Music | Yes | Yes | Yes | Notes in tablature and standard notation , also as an app for Android, iPad and iPhone | |
| Harmony Assistant | Melody Assistant | Myriad | Yes | Yes | Yes | Noteworthy, one-time lifetime license for all updates | |
| MagicScore (Maestro) | Classic, School, Note, Music Notation for MS Word | DG software | Yes | No | No | ||
| Mozart | Mozart Viewer | David Webber | Yes | No | No | ||
| Music MasterWorks | Aspire Software LLC | Yes | No | No | Can also convert monophonic audio that is played via the microphone into notes. | ||
| Music Publisher | Lauriso software | Yes | No | No | Formerly developed and sold by Braeburn Software. The author and programmer is Bernard Hill (retired January 2014). | ||
| Notation Composer | Musician notation | Notation Software Germany GmbH | Yes | With Wine | With Wine | On the market since 1994. | |
| Noteworthy Composer (NWC) | NoteWorthy Software Inc. | Yes | No | No | Allows extensions or automation through user scripts. | ||
| Notion | Progression (for guitar) | Notion Music | Yes | Yes | No | Comprehensive sound library (10 GB) from the London Symphony Orchestra , notation program for iPad, with Dropbox connection, files (* .notion) save as: pdf, music-xml, midi via e-mail, print score, export wav, aac /, Strengths in music production and reproduction | |
| Octava (Professional) | SD36, SD25, SD10, SD4 | Obtiv | Yes | No | No | Functional support for arrangers and composers possible (Octava composition) | |
| Overture | Score Writer | Sonic Scores | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| Pizzicato (Professional) | Composition, notation, beginner etc. a. | Arpege Music | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| Play Music | Notation Technologies | Yes | No | No | |||
| PriMus (Publisher) | Professional, Standard, Basic, Reader | Columbus Soft | Yes | Yes | With Wine | Notation and guitar tablature. Several pieces of music per document possible. Optional also own markup language (EMIL) . | Augemus Musikverlag , Schott-Verlag |
| QuickScore Elite | Copyist | Sion software | Yes | No | No | ||
| Reflow | Gargant Studios | No | Yes | No | Only for Mac, also as an iPad and iPhone app | ||
| Score | Leland Smith | Yes | emulator | emulator | Requires input language learning. Formerly the market-leading MS-DOS program. Since January 1st, 2009, owners of an MS-DOS version can upgrade to the beta version for Windows. | Bärenreiter , Boosey & Hawkes , Breitkopf & Härtel , Edition Peters , Schott , Universal Edition u. a. | |
| ScoreCloud | Studio, Express, Web | DoReMIR Music Research | Yes | Yes | No | Formerly ScoreCleaner. Specialized in converting audio and MIDI into notes using neural networks | |
| Sibelius (Professional) | First, Scorch (browser add-on, iPad app) | Avid , distributor: M3C | Yes | Yes | No | Hal Leonard, Amadeus Verlag , Edition Peters , Bärenreiter , Boosey & Hawkes , Ricordi , Breitkopf & Härtel , Oxford University Press , Faber Music , B-Note Musikverlag u. a. | |
| Toccata (Professional) | default | Rubisoft Software GmbH | Yes | No | No | Sheet music and tablatures, also for Styrian harmonica, Schwyzerörgeli and Morino club model |
Free
The following table lists open source projects and freeware from the music notation area that have a WYSIWYG user interface.
| program | Company / authors | License | Windows | Mac | Linux | WYSIWYG editor | Special features / comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canorus | Reinhard Katzmann, Matevž Jekovec, Georg Rudolph u. a. | GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Successor to NoteEdit |
| crescendo | NCH software | Proprietary | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| Denemo | Jeremiah Benham, Richard Shann | GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | WYSIWY M | Based entirely on LilyPond for the notation, but is not itself WYSIWYG for convenience . |
| Final notepad | MakeMusic, distribution: Klemm | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | 32-bit application, no longer runs on macOS Catalina. With manual adjustment, it can run under Linux with Wine |
| Forte Free | Lugert Publishing House | Proprietary | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| Grégoire | Eric Lejosne | Proprietary | Yes | No | No | part | For Gregorian chant notation in square notation |
| Laborejo | Nils Gey | GPL v3 | No | No | Yes | WYSIWY M | LilyPond front end with focus on playback and MIDI |
| MuseScore | Werner Schweer | GPL v2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | With direct PDF, SVG and audio export |
| NtEd | Jörg Anders | GPL | No | No | Yes | Yes | Follow-up project to the original NoteEdit author. With direct PDF, SVG and PostScript export. |
| PriMus Free | Columbus Soft | Proprietary | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| TuxGuitar | Julian Gabriel Casadesus u. a. | LGPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Java program for sheet music in tablature and standard notation |
Web-based music notation programs
The following music notation programs do not require installation. They can be called up directly from a web browser and work via cloud computing . The basic functions can usually be used free of charge, with extended note functions and a larger online storage unit being tied to a subscription. This is why this type of licensing is called Software as a Service (SaaS, German: "Software as a service").
| program | Company / authors | License | Special features / comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capprizio | Krzysztof Mroczek | Proprietary ( SaaS ) | Java applet |
| Noteflight | Noteflight LLC | Proprietary ( SaaS ) | Up to version 2.0 Flash application. Noteflight 3.0 uses HTML5 ( previewed January 2013) |
| scorio | fun communications | Proprietary ( SaaS ) | Based on HTML5 . Available for PC and iPad . Notation on the server side via LilyPond. Partly requires Quicktime. |
Markup music notation programs
The following music notation programs require learning a music markup language.
| program | Company / authors | License | Windows | Mac | Linux | Acquisition | Special features / comments | In use by the following publishers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Chris Walshaw | GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free | Non-commercial, open standard for notating music in ASCII code | |
| Amadeus | Wolfgang Hamann, Sales: Kurt Maas | Proprietary | No | No | Yes | Chargeable | One of the first programs to be used in the publishing environment | Henle, Breitkopf, Strube, Trio Musik Ed. u. a. |
| Gregorio | Élie Roux, Olivier Berten | GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free | Own GABC syntax for the set of Gregorian chant in square notation , graphical output via an associated LaTeX package | Illuminare Publications |
| GUIDOLib | SALIERI group | LGPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free | Library for integration in your own software with a functional display and print program, text-based format | |
| LilyPond | Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free | Without graphical user interface ( command line program ) | |
| MC Musiceditor | Reinier Maliepaard | Proprietary | Yes | No | No | Free | Input via markup language | |
| Mup (Music Publication Program) | Arkkra Enterprises | Open source | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free | Released in 1992, open source since 2012 | |
| Muse | AR Editions | Proprietary | No | ? | ? | Chargeable | Runs on Sun Microsystems UNIX operating systems | |
| MusiXTeX | Daniel Taupin, Ross Mitchell, Andreas Egler | GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free | Without graphical user interface ( command line program ) | |
| OpusTeX | Andreas Egler | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free | TeX package for setting Gregorian chants , developed by one of the MusiXTeX authors, according to the documentation in beta, but freely usable. | |
| Philip's Music Writer (PMW) | Philip Hazel | GPL | No | No | Yes | Free | Without graphical user interface ( command line program ). |
Sequencer with notation function
In addition to their main field of application of audio and MIDI processing, the following sequencers also include notation functionalities.
| Program (full version) | Slimmed down variants | Company / author | License | Windows | Mac | Linux | Acquisition | Special features / comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aria Maestosa | Auria | GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free | ||
| Brahms | Jan Würthner, Ben Mitchinson, Tak-Shing Chan, Jon Chambers u. a. | GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Free | ||
| Cubase | Artist, Elements | Steinberg | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | Chargeable | |
| Logic | Apple Inc. | Proprietary | Discontinued | Yes | No | Chargeable | ||
| Pro Tools | HD, MP (formerly M-Powered), LE (discontinued) | Avid | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | Chargeable | Notation functions originate from Sibelius and are therefore compatible with Sibelius files |
| REAPER | Cockos | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Chargeable | ||
| Rose garden | Chris Cannam, Andy Green | GPL | Yes | No | Yes | Free | ||
| Sonar (producer) | Studio, Essential | Cakewalk | Proprietary | Yes | No | No | Chargeable |
Obsolete music notation programs
The following software is no longer being developed and is technically out of date, but has historical significance.
| Program (full version) | Slimmed down variants | Company / authors | Last version | License | Windows | Mac | Linux | Acquisition | WYSIWYG editor | Special features / comments | In use by the following publishers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berlioz | Dominique Montel, Fréderic Magiera | 2010 | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | Free | Partially |
Obsolete Only in French. Software was proprietary, development by Montel was discontinued and is to become open source |
Ed. Durand et al. a. | |
| Graphire Music Press | Graphire | 2003 ( 9.0 ) | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | Chargeable | ? |
Obsolete |
EditWorks, Highland Music Engraving, etc. a. | |
| Igor Engraver | Noteheads | 2002 ( 1.7 ) | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | Chargeable | Yes |
Obsolete |
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| La mà de Guido | Llorenç Balsach | 1987 | Proprietary | No | No | No | Chargeable | No |
Obsolete Spanish for Guido's hand , DOS program, input via input language, arcs mostly set by hand |
Strube publishing house | |
| Lime | CERL Sound Group | 2007 ( 9.0 ) | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | No | Chargeable | Yes |
Obsolete Programmed by Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein |
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| Nightingale (X) | Nightingale, NightLight | Adept Music Notation Solutions | 2006 ( 5.6 ) | Proprietary | No | Yes | No | Chargeable | Yes |
Obsolete |
Music publisher Andrea Wiegand |
| Notator SL | Creator (without notation) | C-Lab | 1993 ( 3.21 ) | Proprietary | No | No | No | Chargeable | Yes |
Obsolete program for Atari ST . Historically the first sequencer with music notation functionality; Predecessor to Logic |
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| NoteEdit | Jörg Anders, Christian Fasshauer, Reinhard Katzmann, Matevž Jekovec, Georg Rudolph u. a. | 2006 ( 2.8 ) | GPL | No | No | Yes | Free | Yes |
Obsolete To be replaced by Canorus. Print only with the help of other programs in whose format NoteEdit can export (such as LilyPond or ABC). |
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| Power Tab Editor | Brad Larsen | 2000 ( 1.7 ) | Proprietary | Yes | No | No | Free | Yes |
Obsolete program for guitar sheet music in tablature and standard notation |
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| scan-note | Mogens Kjaer, later Toppan | ? | Proprietary | No | No | No | Offered as a service only | ? |
Obsolete According to manufacturer 1981 market share of 10% for notes printed in Europe |
Bärenreiter u. a. | |
| Score Perfect (Professional) | Standard, Education | Scoretec | 2000, ( 7.0 ) | Proprietary | Yes | No | No | Chargeable | Yes | Hired after the developer’s death in 2012 and liquidated the company. | |
| Vivaldi gold | Vivaldi Plus | Digital Music Solutions | 2008 | Proprietary | Yes | No | No | Chargeable | Yes |
Obsolete |
Individual evidence
- ↑ capella.de
- ↑ wiki.sins942.ch
- ↑ The best music notation programs tested. April 6, 2020, accessed on April 17, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Boris Hellmers: About Us. This is bnote.de. B-Note Publishing, accessed on September 9, 2019 : "With the Sibelius and Finale music notation systems (and in future especially Dorico), three digital printing machines and its own postpress, B-Note has the entire production chain in its own hands."
- ↑ Company: We are switching to Dorico. We switch to Dorico. Company, accessed on September 9, 2019 : “After a lot of thought and in view of our older repertoire, we have chosen Dorico as our main music notation program. And it was a good decision. "
- ↑ General Catalog 2009. (PDF; 3.5 MB) Klemm Music Technology, p. 36 , accessed on January 19, 2013 : “Leading music publishers such. B. Bärenreiter, Schott, Sikorski, Voggenreiter or Gerig work and publish u. a. with final "
- ↑ First insights into FORTE 10 - FORTE notation . In: FORTE notation . September 20, 2018 ( forte-notätze.de [accessed October 26, 2018]).
- ↑ Wave to MIDI converter / Voice-to-Note feature
- ↑ Notion version 4. Expansion Sounds. NOTION Music, accessed on September 10, 2011 (English): "The orchestral samples and classical guitar were recorded at Abbey Road Studios by the the London Symphony Orchestra."
- ^ Page from Schott flute school. (GIF) The d. Schott-Verlag, accessed on January 16, 2013 .
- ↑ News. New Notations London. a tempo Satz & Verlag, October 1, 2009, accessed on January 27, 2013 : "New Notations London takes over the score distribution"
- ^ The SCORE Music Publishing System. Faultless Publications. San Andreas Press January 7, 2013; archived from the original January 19, 2015 ; accessed on January 27, 2013 (English): "Distinguished publishers issuing editions created by the SCORE program include: [...]"
- ^ Hal Leonard & Sibelius team up to take digital publishing to a new level. New technology to be featured on sheetmusicdirect.com. Avid, January 2001, accessed January 26, 2013 : "Hal Leonard will make the first 5,000 songs from its vast catalog available on sheetmusicdirect.com in the Sibelius format"
- ↑ Selected Sibelius scores. Publisher. Avid, April 24, 2012, retrieved on January 26, 2013 (English): “music publishers publish scores engraved with Sibelius, including Bärenreiter, Breitkopf & Härtel, Boosey & Hawkes, Edition Peters, Faber Music, Music Sales, Novello, Oxford University Press, Ricordi and Schott. "
- ↑ Boris Hellmers: About Us. This is bnote.de. B-Note Publishing, accessed on January 26, 2013 : "We proofread, set and produce these editions in-house using the“ Sibelius ”music notation program."
- ↑ Reinhard Katzmann: Canorus project webpage. Archived from the original on August 20, 2010 ; accessed on August 18, 2012 (English): "The development team consisted of: ..."
- ↑ Bug 34406 New: regression: Finale Notepad 2012 doesn't copy / create user files on program start. Retrieved December 21, 2014 (instructions on how to start Finale Notepad in Wine).
- ↑ Eric Lejosne: Grégoire Présentation. Grégoire est un logiciel d'édition de partitions pour le chant Grégorien. Retrieved on March 3, 2013 (French, now available again after server crash September 2012).
- ^ Nils Gey: What is Laborejo? (No longer available online.) June 9, 2013, archived from the original on June 3, 2013 ; accessed on June 9, 2013 (English): "It is a graphical user interface for Lilypond, a MIDI creator and finally a tool collection to inspire and help you compose." Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Noteflight's Cloud-Based Music Notation Tool Goes Mobile. Noteflight's score writing software first to reach iPad, iPhone, Android with HTML5 technology. PRWeb, January 15, 2013, accessed May 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Quick Intro to Noteflight 3.0. (No longer available online.) Noteflight, archived from the original on March 11, 2013 ; accessed on May 11, 2013 (English): "This post is a brief guide to the preview release of Noteflight's new site." Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ MusE. Music Engraving System. AR Editions, Inc., September 7, 2007, archived from the original on February 11, 2009 ; accessed on April 10, 2013 (English): "MusE, the AR Editions music engraving system, is a professional-level program that sets high quality music notation for the printed page. It runs on Sun Microsystems workstations using the Open Windows graphical user interface on top of a UNIX operating system. "
- ↑ Andreas Egler: Opus 0.9.3. (ZIP; 450 kB) 00readme.txt. Muri Benedictine Abbey, November 1, 2003, accessed on January 23, 2013 : “You are not allowed to change this file. [...] You are NOT ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of either this file or a changed version. "
- ↑ Dominique Montel: Berlioz. Credentials. Retrieved on January 17, 2013 (French): "They use the Berlioz software for their publications or to create their own scores"
- ^ Music Press Customers. Graphire Corporation, January 31, 2001, accessed January 20, 2013 : "This is a list of some of the people and companies that use Music Press."
- ↑ Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Walter B. Hewlett, Donald Byrd, Roger D. Boyle, and others. a .: Beyond MIDI . The Handbook of Musical Codes. Ed .: Eleanor Selfridge-Field. 1st edition. MIT Press, London 1997, ISBN 0-262-19394-9 , 33. Beyond Codes: Issues in Musical Representationc, pp. 572 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ Atari Notator - The Rolls Royce of Atari Sequencing
- ↑ Reinhard Katzmann: NoteEdit. Authors. berliOS, August 10, 2006, archived from the original on April 2, 2009 ; accessed on January 21, 2013 .
- ↑ Brad Larsen: FAQ. Will Power Tab Editor Be Released As Open Source? August 20, 2007, accessed on January 17, 2013 (English, source code not disclosed.): "As it stands now, the answer is no."
- ↑ a b Music engraver's work cut by computer . In: The Telegraph . May 5, 1981, p. 34 (British English, Google News [accessed April 7, 2013]).
- ^ A b Walter B. Hewlett, Eleanor Selfridge-Field: Printing Music By Computer . (PDF) In: Directory of Computer Assisted Research in Musicology . June 1986, p. 10. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
