Scorewriters

LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand.

MuseScore Studio (branded as MuseScore before 2024) is a free and open-source music notation program for Windows, macOS, and Linux under the Muse Group, which owns the associated online score-sharing platform MuseScore.com and a freemium mobile score viewer and playback app.

WYSIWYG scorewriter program

A scorewriter, or music notation program is software for creating, editing and printing sheet music. A scorewriter is to music notation what a word processor is to text, in that they typically provide flexible editing and automatic layout, and produce high-quality printed results.

sheet music editing software

Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for Linux with ALSA, JACK and Qt4. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter, and musical composition and editing tool. It is intended to be a free alternative to such applications as Cubase.

proprietary music notation software developed and released by MakeMusic

TuxGuitar is a free and open-source tablature editor, which includes features such as tablature editing, score editing, and import and export of Guitar Pro gp3, gp4, and gp5 files. In addition, TuxGuitar's tablature and staff interfaces function as basic MIDI editors.

Denemo is a scorewriter and music sequencer. Denemo has been under development since 1999.

process of drawing music notation at high quality for reproduction

Dorico () is a scorewriter for macOS, Windows and iPadOS developed by Steinberg, a subsidiary of Yamaha. It is one of the leading professional-level music notation programs alongside Sibelius and the now discontinued Finale. Dorico's development team consists of most of the former core developers of Sibelius.

MusiXTeX, sometimes stylised as '''''', is a suite of open source music engraving macros and fonts that allow music typesetting in TeX, released under the GPL-2.0-or-later license.

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NoteEdit is a defunct music scorewriter for Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems. Its official successor is Canorus.

cross-platform, free scorewriter computer program especially for Gregorian chant in square notation

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