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Revision as of 20:07, 26 October 2009
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 MuseScore 0.9.4, running under Microsoft Windows Vista | |
| Original author(s) | Werner Schweer |
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| Developer(s) | Werner Schweer |
| Stable release | 0.9.5
/ August 14, 2009 |
| Preview release | r2059
/ August 31, 2009 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Size | 20MB |
| Available in | Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, English, French, Galician, German, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Traditional Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian |
| Type | Scorewriter |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | musescore.org |
MuseScore is a music scorewriter for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac. MuseScore is a WYSIWYG editor, complete with support for score playback and import/export of MusicXML and standard MIDI files. Percussion notation is supported, as is direct printing from the program.
The program has a clean user interface, with fast note editing input similar to the step-time note entry found in the popular commercial Scorewriting software packages, Finale and Sibelius.
MuseScore is free software, published under the GNU General Public License.
Capabilities
MuseScore is able to import and export from many different music formats, including MIDI and MusicXML, as well as the importing of files from the commercial music arranging software, Band-in-a-Box. It is able to produce engraved output as a PDF, SVG or PNG document, or alternatively, music can be exported to LilyPond for subsequent tweaking of the output.
Development
MuseScore is an outgrowth of MusE, a MIDI sequencer for Linux. In 2002, Werner Schweer decided to "cut MusE's notation capabilities out of the sequencer and rewrite it as a standalone notation editor."[1] The rewrite is based on the cross-platform Qt toolkit.
See also
References
- ^ Dave Phillips, "At the Sounding Edge: Music Notation Software, the Final Installment," Linux Journal (6 April 2006).
External links
- MuseScore homepage
- MuseScore mailinglist
- MuseScore articles
- Music Dave Phillips, Notation Software for Linux, April 22nd, 2009
- MusTech.net review, October 7th, 2008
- David Bolton first impressions on MuseScore
- About.com review, March 24th, 2008
- Dave Phillips: Music Notation Programs: Recent Releases, Feb 25th, 2008
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