ABCJ Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to ABCJ for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is MuseScore Studio, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to ABCJ and 16 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to ABCJ are TuxGuitar, LilyPond, Rosegarden and Impro-Visor.

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  1. MuseScore Studio icon
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    Compose, arrange, and share music using free, open-source software for Windows, Mac, and Linux with integrated playback, fast note entry, MIDI, MusicXML, PDF support, multilingual UI, and direct connection to an online sheet music community for sharing scores.

    73 MuseScore Studio alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
     
  2. LilyPond icon
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    GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPonds major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand.

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  3. Impro-Visor icon
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    Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
     
  4. Frescobaldi icon
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    Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the General Public License.

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  5. Aria Maestosa icon
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    Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Jazz++ icon
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    Jazz++ is a MIDI sequencer/composer. Create your own music.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Denemo icon
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    GNU Denemo is a music notation editor that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen to the music and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. DGuitar icon
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    DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (GP4, GP3, GTP) viewer/player that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and any other operating system that has Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or later installed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. music21 icon
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    Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology. Applications of this toolkit include computational musicology, music informations, musical example extraction and generation, music notation editing and scripting, and a wide variety of approaches to composition, bo.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. NtEd icon
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    NtEd is a GTK+ score editor. It intends to be really WYSIWYG: what you see on the screen is exactly what you get on printer output. It supports up to 4 voices per staff, drum notes, 5 lyrics lines, N-Tuplets, context changes, repeats with alternatives, configurable music...

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