I certainly find it to be a lot more capable than Notepad. This software is very close to a 1.0 release and seems to be very feature complete.

MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licenced under GNU GPL.

This is more of a front-end to LilyPond than a full featured notation editor, and it still has a little way to go in terms of development.

It supports note writing, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output, scripting and more! It is cross-platform, but still under heavy development so it is not yet ready for serious use.ĭenemo is a music notation program for Linux and Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. I thought it might be useful to show what free and open source alternatives are available instead, as I have recently spent some time trying all of these out.Ĭanorus is a free extensible music score editor. With the release of Finale Notepad 2009, MakeMusic will now be charging $9.95 for it instead of providing it for free as they have in the past.

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