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LilyPond Alternatives
LilyPond is described as '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' and is a music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to LilyPond for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and iPhone apps. The best LilyPond alternative is MuseScore Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LilyPond are TuxGuitar, Dorico, OpenMPT and Avid Sibelius.
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ABC, a text based music score manager-editor for free. You can copy, transpose or play these songs, import midi-music files, export to midi, to pdf, to web page or to any other printable format.
capella playAlong makes it possible for you to choose the musical backing you want and to take it with you into your living room!.
ABCEditor is a Windows program from Elizabeth Scarlett (hosted at Alf Warnock's site) which allows you to create, edit, play and organise abc files. It can transpose, reformat, adjust beaming, create cheet sheets and search for tunes.
MidiYodi is a cross-platform MIDI Editor for the desktop that allows editing, examination, playback and conversion of MIDI files. MidiYodi provides a rich set of tools to examine and edit the layout, structure and content of a MIDI file.
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QAbc is a minimal but useful GUI for ABC music composition. This program allow to write music in the ABC syntax and play, preview and print the sheet music.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
Composing it for you... Automatic three and four-part composition (styles: J.S. Bach, Max Reger, Jazz, Pop plus creating your own styles), automatic harmonizing, automatic fugue and canon composition.
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MEFA is a program that can be used for writing, printing and playing music. The MEFA program is very easy to use and the music can be written in a fast way. The notation is presented above the text window.
capella melody trainer listens while you are rehearsing! Inexact notes are a thing of the past: Somebody is listening while you are rehearsing, shows quietly but uncompromisingly where you did wrong, knows what you did well and never complains… Isn’t this the trainer you always...
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Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine
Learn to play any instrument! Instrument Bible is a virtual fingering chart for brass, woodwind, and string instruments.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Windows Mobile
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Kindle Fire
- Xbox
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13 ChordPro alternativesChordPro generates professional-looking, printer-ready sheet music from a text file that contains lyric and chord information. This input file containing the music uses a simple text format for the notation of lyrics and chords which allows them to be properly interpreted by...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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