MuseScore

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MuseScore
MuseScore 0.9.3, running under Microsoft Windows XP
Design by	Werner Schweer
Developed by	Werner Schweer
Latest release	0.9.3 / 23 April 2008
Preview release	r984 / 24 May 2008
Written in	C++
OS	Microsoft Windows, Linux
Size	5MB
Available in	English, German
Development status	beta
Genre	Scorewriter
License	GNU General Public License
Website	musescore.org

MuseScore is a music scorewriter for Linux and Microsoft Windows. 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.

1 Capabilities
2 Development
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] 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, such as 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.

[edit] Development

MuseScore is a 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.