What is MuseScore?

MuseScore is open source music notation software that runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and is available in over fourty different languages. It features an easy to use WYSIWYG editor with audio score playback for results that look and sound beautiful, rivaling commercial offerings like Finale and Sibelius.

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Create, play, and print sheet music for free

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Create, play back, and print sheet music with free open source notation software

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Create, play back, and print sheet music for free. MuseScore is cross-platform, multi-lingual, open source music notation software. It features an easy to use WYSIWYG editor with audio score playback for results that look and sound beautiful. It supports unlimited staves with up to four voices each, dynamics, articulations, lyrics, chords, lead sheet notation, import/export of MIDI and MusicXML, export to PDF and WAV, plus online score sharing.

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Create, play back, and print sheet music for free. MuseScore is open source music notation software that runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux, and is available in over fourty different languages. It features an easy to use WYSIWYG editor with audio score playback for results that look and sound beautiful, rivaling commercial offerings like Finale and Sibelius.

Features supported by MuseScore include:

Unlimited score length

Unlimited number of staves per system

Up to four independent voices per staff

Score creation wizard and templates

Automatic part extraction and transposition

Repeats, including segnos, codas, and measure repeats

Dynamics, articulations, and other expression markings, with playback support for most

Custom text markings

Lyrics

Chord symbols

Jazz notation, including lead sheets, slash notation and a “handwritten” font for text

Swing and shuffle playback

Mixer for instrument levels and effects

Percussion notation

Early music notation

Cross-staff beaming

Import of graphics

Custom key signatures

User-defined score styles

Most elements in MuseScore are laid out automatically but can also be positioned manually. The capabilities of MuseScore can be extended via plugins, and the growing repository on musescore.org contains many plugins submitted by users. MuseScore includes a set of sounds that reproduce common instruments (as defined by General MIDI) without taking up a lot of disk space or memory, but you can also substitute any SoundFont you prefer for a wider variety of sounds or for more realism. MuseScore can import and export MIDI and MusicXML files, and it can also import from Capella and several other programs. MuseScore can export to PDF, PNG, and other graphic formats, to WAV and other audio formats, or to Lilypond for an alternative layout and print option. MuseScore can upload scores directly to the score sharing site musescore.com. Program support is provided on musescore.org.

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Download Sibelius | First for FREE! The powerful, yet easy to use music notation and composition program, perfect for aspiring composers and songwriters to get started.

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There are a number of other downloads available to registered Sibelius users in the Help Center , including: Download Sibelius | First for FREE! The powerful, yet easy to use music notation and composition program, perfect for aspiring composers and songwriters to get started.

Sibelius Scorch (Discontinued)

For a limited time only, you can download the old free web browser plug-in that lets you view, play, print, transpose and save scores from the Internet. This has been replaced with Sibelius Cloud Sharing and Publishing, where no plugin download is needed and music now displays on phones and tablets too. For more informaion, please visit avid.com.

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