MuseScore
MuseScore is a free music notation and composition software available for Linux, Windows and Mac.
What is MuseScore?
MuseScore is a free music notation and composition software available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
It allows for fast and easy note entry on a virtual note sheet. It has an integrated sequencer to allow for immediate playback of the score. MuseScore can import and export MusicXML and standard Midi files.
MuseScore is available in more than 40 languages and is rapidly becoming the leading free music notation software and often praised as a cost effective alternative for expensive software.
MuseScore features a direct connection with the sheet music sharing site MuseScore.com via the MuseScore Connect panel. This gives users direct access to thousands pieces of sheet music shared by the community.
MuseScore.com also invites users who share sheet music frequently to upgrade to MuseScore.com PRO, which features more onlinemixing tools and no ads. It also allows users to upload and share more sheet music, since the free version offers space for at most five scores stored online. It must be noted that while MuseScore.com has a paid subscription model, the actual software, MuseScore, remains completely free and open source software.
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MuseScore information
- Developed byWerner Schweer
- LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.6
- Alternatives68 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 7,745 Stars
- 1,993 Forks
- 993 Open Issues
- Updated
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Tags
- Music Production
- score-to-music
- full-score
- share-music
- musicxml
- score-playing
- print-music
- lead-sheet
- composing
- leadsheet
- music-share
- music-sharing
- score
- sheet-music
- scorewriting
- MIDI Composer
- composition
- arranging
- score-editor
- notation
All I need as nonprofessional musician. Thanx!
It's an amazing program. But I would like for a better text formatting.
MuseScore is fantastic! It offers a very generous amount of features, a lot of which would be paid features in other notation programs. There's definitely a learning curve, but it's not bad at all. I use it often for SATB writing and can most assuredly recommend it to anyone who wants a free, intuitive notation editor.
Great free software for composing music. It's simple, efficient and gets updated often. MuseScore is professional without costing a cent.
The website has plenty of community written score to learn from. Although, that part isn't entirely free.
MuseScore is a professionally-developed, open source composition program that's constantly improving. It's all but caught up to the industry standard notation programs with its 4.0 iteration.
MuseScore is capable of everything, you just need to understand how it works at the beginning. The UI is very good. If you want to write drum partitions, I suggest you to use the drumline extention.
Coming from Sibelius to MuseScore 3.6.1, initially it seemed a bit obscure to me. But after realizing how simple is to make complex and traditional notations with it, I can't commit anymore to Sibelius. Plus, it's open source, and its 4th version will be coming perhaps in 2021.