Music Software

NOTATION SOFTWARE

• Notation software for Windows

  • • Finale, the de facto standard for music notation and typesetting (they also have a smaller, simpler, free version of the program called NotePad that is available for download).

    • NoteWorthy Composer, an inexpensive music notation program.

    • QuickScore Elite

• Notation software for Linux

  • • MuseScore has been highly rated on several different blogs.  (It is available for Windows and Mac as well.)  The main webpage has a series of links to YouTube videos that show how to get started using the application.

      • A blog entry on getting started with MuseScore was posted by Nickleus in 2013 on his blog,

    • Denemo is a GUI front end for LilyPond (a music typesetting program that produces professional typesetting quality output)

    • Canorus (also for Mac and Windows)

• • NtEd

• Cloud based notation applications

• • Noteflight

  • Scorio

• Other

• • Wikipedia's list of scorewriters

SEQUENCING SOFTWARE

• • Cakewalk, a MIDI sequencing program.

  • Power Tracks Pro, a great, cheap sequencer/notation program - only $29.95!

AUDIO TOOLS

• • Audacity, an open source audio file editing tool.

  • CDex, an open source CD audio extractor application.