Lilypond

With LilyPond we have tried to make the most beautiful music typography available for everyone. LilyPond is an Open Source, automated, engraving system that formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files. It makes your computer printout look just as... Platforms: Windows, *nix

LilyPond is not unique in making music notation: there are a lot of programs that print music, and nowadays most of the newly printed music is made with computers. Unfortunately, that also shows: just ask any musician that plays classical music: new scores do not look as nice as old ones. What... Platforms: Mac

LilyPond is not unique in making music notation: there are a lot of programs that print music, and nowadays most of the newly printed music is made with computers. Unfortunately, that also shows: just ask any musician that plays classical music: new scores do not look as nice as old ones. What... Platforms: Linux

Denemo is a unique score editor which exports notation to LilyPond and ABC music formats. Denemo also acts as a frontend for Csound score files. Denemo is different from most graphic music editors, this is partly because it was created to help edit Lilypond notation and partly because of its... Platforms: *nix

Rumor is a realtime monophonic (with chords) MIDI keyboard to Lilypond converter. It receives MIDI events, quantizes them according to its metronome on the fly and outputs handwritten-like corresponding Lilypond notation. Tempo, meter, key and other parameters can be set via command-line options.... Platforms: *nix

Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition system.2 The Strasheela user declaratively states a music theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules (constraints)... Platforms: Mac

VocalEasel is a simple lead sheet editor and music rehearsal tool designed for the needs of Jazz vocalists, using LilyPond to produce printable lead sheets and MMA (Musical Midi Accompaniment) to produce MIDI accompaniments. Platforms: Mac

OOoLilyPond is an OpenOffice.org marco. It helps including music notation in OpenOffice.org Writer and Impress documents. The music expressions are entered as text codes and translated to images (png or eps) using LilyPond. Platforms: *nix

Katmus Katmus is an application for manual music transcription. It is based on QT4 and runs under GNU/Linux. Katmus features a score editor synchronized with a wave file, time stretching, audio analysis through the fast Fourier transform (FFT), play scores, export scores to lilypond, pdf, midi..., Platforms: *nix

MuseScore is a graphical WYSIWYG music score typesetter. It uses a TrueType music font derived from the lilypond project feta fonts. Notes are entered on an "virtual note sheet". When you enter the notes, the score is immediately reformatted. Platforms: *nix

LilyComp is a graphical note entry program for use with the LilyPond music typesetting program. I am in no way connected with LilyPond, so do not blame them for the quality of this program. This program was written to speed up the creation of lead sheets. It just enters notes and rests with the... Platforms: *nix

Audio::Beep is a Perl module to use your computer beeper in fancy ways. SYNOPSIS #functional simple way use Audio::Beep; beep($freq, $milliseconds); #OO more musical way use Audio::Beep; my $beeper = Audio::Beep->new(); # lilypond subset syntax accepted # relative notation is the... Platforms: *nix

abcpp is a simple yet powerful preprocessor designed for, but not limited to, ABC music files. One of my hobbies is music: I play flute, recorder, whistle and clarinet, and I sing as a tenor in a choir. I find that the ABC music notation language is a wonderful tool to typeset sheet music. ABC is... Platforms: *nix

Gscore project is a music notation application. Writing scores becomes as easy as entering text in a word processor. You can then export it to various file formats (abc is currently supported, other are in progress) and easily share your scores with your friends. You can also import various... Platforms: *nix

MuseScore is a graphical WYSIWYG music score typesetter. It uses a TrueType music font derived from the lilypond project feta fonts. Notes are entered on an "virtual note sheet". When you enter the notes, the score is immediately reformatted.. Platforms: *nix

Clilypboard is Lied (see below) without text editor. Clilypboard allows users using the main Lied's functions (musical definitions in Lilypond syntax), using any text editor. Clilypboard copies the menu items into the computer's clipboard, allowing then the insertion of the selected item into an... Platforms: *nix