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Music Notation Editors

Recommended: Laborejo, MuseScore, Denemo, Katmus

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ABC a language designed to notate tunes in an ascii format. (This page is the main resource for abc-related packages) abc music_notation_editors,
ABC Plus Project Enhancements for the ABC language, including “abcpp” (abc preprocessor) and “JedABC” (abc file editor) abc music_notation_editors,
abcMIDI renders abc score to MIDI file abc music_notation_editors midi_software file_conversion, , ,
ariamaestosa Cross-platform MIDI sequencer/editor. Lets users compose, edit and play MIDI files in a simple user interface offering score, keyboard (piano-roll…, , , , , ,
Canorus Canorus is a free extensible music score editor. It supports note writing, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output, scripting and …
ChordCast for_guitarists_only java music_notation_editors, ,
ChordDB a Web-based database front-end that keeps track of chord files (fake sheets), accepts Chord and ChordPro input files, and creates output in PDF, text, …
Chordpack for_guitarists_only music_notation_editors unmaintained, ,
Denemo Denemo is a music notation program for Linux and Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. Music can…, , , , ,
Gsharp extensible Lisp-based music score editor music_notation_editors
GuitarTex for_guitarists_only music_notation_editors,
Jef's ABC page Extension software for ABC, includes abc2mps (abc files to Postscript) and tclabc (Tcl/Tk interface for abc files) abc music_notation_editors,
Katmus A Qt4 app for manual music transcription. Features a score editor synchronized with a wave file, time stretching, audio analysis through the fast Fourie…
Laborejo Laborejo, Esperanto for “Workshop”, is used to craft music through notation. It is a LilyPond GUI frontend, a MIDI creator and finally a tool collec…, , , , ,
LilyComp “This program was written to speed up the creation of lead sheets. It just enters notes and rests with the indicated duration.” lilypond music_nota…,
LilyPond The music typesetter for Linux, outputs TeX, PostScript, PDF, and MIDI files, with an awesome features set and beautiful notation LilyPond-relate…,
LilyPond Guide For Beginners * <http://eugenecormier.com/?p=147> a set of introductory tutorials from Eugene Cormier lilypond music_notation_editors and_…, , ,
Mup music_notation_editors
MUP Utilities Utilities for use with Mup music_notation_editors
MuseScore MuseScore is a cross-platform scorewriter supporting a wide variety of file formats and input methods. lilypond music_notation_editors,
MusicXML “... a universal translator for common Western musical notation... designed as an interchange format for notation, analysis, retrieval, and performanc…,
MusiXTeX * <http://icking-music-archive.org> full-featured music typesetting via TeX (This page is also the main resource for other TeX-related notation pac…,
MuX2D graphic editor for MusiXTeX files, from Lukas Gr&uuml;tzmacher music_notation_editors unmaintained,
Notation Editors Under Linux a look at notation editors for producing sheet music (especially focused on Mup). on-line_articles and_now_for_something_rather_d…, ,
NoteEdit Qt-based notation editor with output in LilyPond, MIDI, and MusicXML formats lilypond music_notation_editors,
OOoLilyPond a neat macro for inserting LilyPond-created music notation into OpenOffice.org documents, from Samuel Hartmann lilypond music_notation_editors,
PMW Philip's Music Writer, an easy-to-use music typesetting program lilypond music_notation_editors,
Printable Manuscript Paper Blank manuscript in PostScript and PDF formats music_notation_editors
Rosegarden Advanced audio/MIDI sequencer, notation editor, Csound-score producer, score creation from MIDI input and more. Supports plugins (softsynths/effects…, , , , , , , ,
XCircuit a drawing package for X which includes some very nice music typography and outputs Postscript files music_notation_editors

Tabulature

Recommended: TuxGuitar

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Bipscript a simple programming environment for creating music Features * instantiate and connect LV2 plugins to create audio and MIDI networks * schedule…, , , , , , , , ,
Dr Fermi Tabulator converts ASCII tablature to a standard MIDI file tablature_software for_guitarists_only midi_software file_conversion, , ,
eTktab tablature_software for_guitarists_only,
Gnometab tablature_software for_guitarists_only,
guitar pro for_guitarists_only tablature_software,
KGuitar tablature_software for_guitarists_only,
nootka Qt4 app that helps to learn score reading and guitar tabulature. Uses ALSA or PulseAudio. alsa_seq tablature_software score_recognition_software for_gu…, , ,
ptabtools library and utilities for opening PowerTab files and converting them to LilyPond and ASCII formats tablature_software for_guitarists_only,
SongWrite the latest and greatest incarnation of what was formerly Jiba's GTablature Songwrite is a tablature (guitar partition) editor coded in Python and …,
tab a lute tablature typesetting system tablature_software
TuxGuitar Guitar tablature editor/player written in Java-SWT. It can open GuitarPro, PowerTab and TablEdit files. for_guitarists_only tablature_software,

Audio Transcription

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paulstretch audio_transcription_software
play it slowly Play back audio files at a different speed or pitch. Uses JACK or ALSA (via GStreamer) Warning: This project is currently unmaintained. It has…, ,
StretchPlayer Audio file player that allows you to change the speed of the song without changing the pitch. It will also allow you to transpose the song to ano…,
TimeStretch Player A free web based alternative to Play It Slowly. It features higher quality time stretching and a more fancy UI. audio_transcription_softwa…
Transcribe! aid for transcribing recorded music, from the programmers at SeventhString It is also used by many people for play-along practice. It can change p…
YATM A simple command line audio player which can perform playback at a different speed than the original audio was recorded with. This is done without changi…

Software For Song Lyrics

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Asaph a tool for Christian music groups and worship leaders for managing song databases“, from Daniel Azuma. song_lyric_tool
jLyrics Java-based program for storing and editing lyrics song_lyric_tool java,
Lyman song lyrics collection management software, requires Java song_lyric_tool java,