TuxGuitar

With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music using the following features Tablature editor Score Viewer Multitrack display Autoscroll while playing Note duration management Various effects (bend, slide...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Guitar Pro

The software to compose music, transcribe your favorite songs, or simply read the thousands of tabs available on the Internet.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

Rosegarden

Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.

Free Open Source Linux

LilyPond

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

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Synthesia

A fun way to learn how to play the piano. Whether you've always wanted to learn or you're a veteran looking for a fun new way to practice, get ready to join the thousands using Synthesia.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Android Tablet iPad Wine

Sibelius

Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and historically RISC OS.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

Impro-Visor

Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Denemo

GNU Denemo is a music notation editor that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen to the music and much more.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac

Finale

Finale is proprietary scorewriting software developed by MakeMusic, Inc. It displays music primarily in music notation and allows for multiple tracks and very specific tweaking of instrument sounds for each track.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

Anvil Studio

Anvil Studio is a free Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/98 program designed for people who want to: -- record music with MIDI and Audio equipment, -- compose music for MIDI and Audio equipment, -- sequence music with MIDI equipment, or --...

Free Windows

Frescobaldi

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the General Public License. .

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

FORTE Music Notation Software

Forte is an music notation software developed by the German company Lugert Verlag Publishing House in Handorf near Hamburg.

Commercial Windows

Aria Maestosa

Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Flat

Flat lets you write sheet music with your friends in real time with a nice music notation editor. Create and edit your music score documents directly with your web browser in realtime with your friends or colleagues.

Freemium Web Google Drive Facebook Chrome Web Store Hangouts Google Classroom

NtEd

NtEd is a GTK+ score editor. It intends to be really WYSIWYG: what you see on the screen is exactly what you get on printer output.

Free Open Source Linux

Power Tab Editor

Power Tab Editor is a free tablature authoring tool created by Brad Larsen for Windows. It is used to create guitar, bass and ukulele tablature scores, among many others. The current version uses the *.ptb file format.

Free Windows

NoteWorthy Composer

NoteWorthy Composer is a graphical score editor intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export graphical WMFs.

Commercial Windows

music21

Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

EasyABC

EasyABC allows you to edit and play abc files. It supports conversion from MusicXML and MIDI to ABC. The latter uses a custom implementation (midi2abc is not used) in order to produce very readable ABC output.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows

Canorus Music Score Editor

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD