Music Composition Contests

Rosegarden project is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home...

Symbolic Composer is the largest music composition language available.Symbolic Composer is one of the most advanced and largest music composition language available with over 1000 music algorithms, suitable for modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient and experimental styles.

Selor Staff is an open-source music composition app for Mac OS X. It features a staff-based interface (rather than a tracker interface) for natural entry and readability, and supports playback to any MIDI device. Emphasis is placed on user efficiency and automated enforcement of musical constraints.


Platforms: Mac

Bol Processor is a program for music composition and improvisation with real-time MIDI, MIDI file, and Csound output. It produces music from a set of rules (a compositional grammar) or from text scores typed or captured from a MIDI instrument.


Platforms: Mac

JComposer aim to be a complete Java based music composition tool, using XML as its main file format, featuring an intuitive WYSIWYG notation editor, fast keyboard editing, automatic notation layout, high quality rendering, MIDI playback and open APIs.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Sound Grid is a graphical music composition, editing, and notation tool in the cartesian coordinate system. Visit http://sites.google.com/site/soundgrid/Home for tutorial. Contact jonnyq@scn.org for questions. Keywords: midi java sound


Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

SoundHelix is a free versatile Java framework for algorithmic music composition. SoundHelix can generate random songs, play them (for example, on MIDI devices or MIDI-capable software synthesizers) and is highly customizable using XML configuration.


Platforms: Mac

A SoundFont editor and other software for editing, managing and sharing sample based MIDI instrument files for computer music composition. Support for other formats is planned.


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

JMSL is a Java API for music composition, interactive performance, and intelligent instrument design. With JMSL, the composer/programmer can create stand-alone musical applications or deploy applets on the web. JMSL supports JSyn, MidiShare, MidiPort, and JavaSound.


Platforms: Mac

Beast is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application released as free software under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, that runs under unix. It supports a wide range of standards in the field, such as MIDI, WAV/AIFF/MP3/OggVorbis/etc audio files and LADSPA modules. It has excellent...


Platforms: *nix

DISSCO is an integrated environment for music composition (CMOD) and additive sound sythesis (LASS). LASS is a C++ library. It includes a Java GUI (LASSIE) which allows users to enter the specifications needed to build sounds. CMOD will be part of a


Platforms: *nix

SwarMala is a complete software package for composition and accompaniment using Indian musical instruments, and consists of two main components: SwarMala composer is the software application which you can use for composing music using the instruments in SwarMala. It consists of a multi-track...


Platforms: Windows

Program description: Pizzicato is a music notation and composition software based on the score and MIDI. Are you a beginner ? Pizzicato includes a free music course. Are you a professional ? Pizzicato offers you a lot of tools and lets you to create yours. Just as you use a word...


Platforms: Windows, Mac

Tools to help you compose and write your own music intuitively, for the solo instrument as well as for the full orchestra. These tools help you to find, structure, develop, organize and harmonize your own musical ideas with an intuitive approach. The music libraries contain thousands of simple...


Platforms: Windows, Mac

Draw sounds on a continuous time-frequency diagram that looks like a musical score. They use purely graphical operations (such as move-resize, copy-paste, group...) to produce rapidly complex audio effects or full compositions. HighC draws on 20 years of a world class user interface design...


Platforms: Mac

Jm-Etude is a jMusic wrapper for the processing environment. It provides a high level API to communicate with jMusic therefore it makes it more easy to programm music composition with processing. jMusic itself is a solid framework for computer-assisted composition in Java, it is also used for...


Platforms: Mac

The GrooveMaker is the first groove generator based on a powerful sample layering engine with huge pre-grouped loop sample libraries called "songs." Now it's fast and simple to create instant, hi-quality dance music. With the GrooveMaker, you can play, mix and randomize your own grooves on the...


Platforms: Mac

Practica Musica, Ars Nova's award-winning music theory and ear training software, has received its most significant upgrade to date: Version 4. Now compatible with both Windows and Macintosh, Practica Musica 4 has many new features that make it the new standard for music education software.Fully...


Platforms: Mac

Practice, compose, arrange, learn or teach music with this auto accompaniment program. Jam along with your computer. Enjoy 102 music styles (rock, blues, country, bluegrass, pop, jazz, Latin, dance, etc.). ChordPulse is an automatic accompaniment generator, a music arranger program, a songwriting...


Platforms: Windows

MagicScore is a magnificent, powerful and convenient musical editor, for those who professionally are engaged in music, seriously studies it or simply loves music and self-expression. Advantages of MagicScore: The convenient interface for a set of scores, some variants of data input by means of...


Platforms: Windows