Muse Score
DESCRIPTION:
Create, play and print beautiful sheet music.
- Step-time and real-time MIDI input, and a built-in virtual piano keyboard. Or type the notes in, or click with the mouse.
- Transpose a selected passage to any key, or by any interval—or even transpose diatonically within the same key.
- Send scrolling sheet music videos to YouTube, with the notes highlighted in the score as they sound—and highlighted on a virtual keyboard below.
- Pedaling, fingering, cross-staff beaming—you name it. Everything needed to write piano sheet music is here.
- Playback of almost all notation elements
- Support for third-party SFZ and SF2 sound libraries
- Style rules apply to the whole score at once
- Total control of every score element’s position
- Support for solo+piano (add small staff with different instrument)
- Support for cadenzas (smaller notes and variable length measures)
- Continuous View displays score as endless ribbon, with no layout breaks
- Easy-to-use and customizable interface
- Import from other music notation software via MusicXML
- Share music online with musescore.com
- Rehearse on the go with MuseScore mobile apps
- Full-featured desktop software free for Mac, Windows, and Linux
- Multiple tab styles available—from note symbols outside the staff to upside-down strings—and linked standard/tab staff pairs.
- MuseScore can now open files from Guitar Pro, so you can easily migrate over. Import filters are improving with every release.
- 21 default chords for every key, and a powerful editor to create your own—with barre, fret position, and any number of strings.
- Banjo, mandolin, ukulele, oud. Custom string tunings. Even historical lute tablature. MuseScore does them all.
- Bends, fingerings, and other common guitar notations supported
- Add/remove linked staves any time; enter notes on either standard or tab staff
- Percussion/drumset also included
- Templates include guitar, tablature, guitar + tablature, and rock/pop band
- Any change you make to the content of any part is immediately reflected in the full score—and vice versa.
- Edit the formatting of parts and score independently—or apply the same style to all parts with just one click.
- Instantly switch between transposed and concert pitch. Sounding pitches stay the same while the written notes change.
- Focus on the content, undistracted by line breaks or page breaks. Switch to Page View to polish up for printing.
- Templates for common instrumentations
- Full orchestral sounds (and support for third-party SF2 and SFZ sound libraries)
- Mixing and panning for individual parts
- Chord names are automatically formatted when you finish typing—plus, they transpose with the notes.
- Commands to fill bars with slashes—and to turn notes into rhythmic slashes, and even accent notation above the staff.
Transpose a selected passage to any key, or by any interval—or even transpose diatonically within the same key.
- Templates for Jazz Lead Sheet, Big Band, and Jazz Combo
- Real Book-style jazz font for text and chord symbols
- Formatting tools include adding line breaks every X measures
- Instantly switch between transposed and concert pitch
- Continuous View displays score as endless ribbon, with no layout breaks
And a lot more. See here.