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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 10 2018, @03:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the 24-to-10-is-a-score-that-I-wrote dept.

LinuxLinks has a 12-section article on the various free and open source score writers available for composers and musicians.

Fortunately, there is a wide range of open source scorewriters which are supported in Linux. This article recommends cost-effective alternatives to Sibelius and Finale. The software featured here is released under freely distributable licenses, all are available to download at no charge, and generate music scores which are engraved with traditional layout rules.

This article does not limit itself to software with a graphical user interface. One of the benefits of using software which doesn't depend on a graphical interface is that you can create and edit music on any type of device, even small handheld devices.

Towards the bottom of the first page, there is a table of the score writers reviewed. Each is reviewed on a separate page. Follow the links there to the individual pages describing each one.

Source : 11 Excellent Free Scorewriters – Compose, arrange, print, and publish music


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by requerdanos on Saturday February 10 2018, @03:40PM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 10 2018, @03:40PM (#636022) Journal

    For a musician to be able to read, understand, and play music, a composition needs to be in written form.

    certainly some musicians can play music without scores.

    I studied music theory, including sight reading from a musical score, but that was 40 years ago.

    I play guitar, mostly by ear.

    For people who play by ear, a score is interesting visually, perhaps, but not useful nor leading to being able to understand nor play music.

    Sure, the tautology "to read [thing] it must be written" tenuously holds, with its exceptions, but the underlying implication that a composition must be written in order to be useful is just mistaken.

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