When I was an untutored rock musician, I envied my colleagues who could read and write music notation. They could access and study material that literally was a closed book to me. So, at one point in ...

In one sense, MuseScore is the "odd man out" in this article. It does not employ LilyPond in any way, but it does support MusicXML. That support gives it an entry into the LilyPond environment by way ...

The programming software that professor Daniel Jones used for his honor’s music courses was a little outdated—the program was stored on floppy disks. With his students in mind, he decided to change ...

If you’re a composer and you want to use your Mac to create music, you may be interested by music notation software but put off by the price without having a chance to try it first. If that’s the case ...

London, England-based Sibelius Software Ltd. has announced that it’s shipping Sibelius 3, the latest major release of its music notation software for Mac and Windows. The new version includes more ...

Finale 2006, the software designed to "enhance how musicians compose, arrange, notate and teach music on a personal computer," was released today. Finale 2006 introduces intuitive new controls and ...

In this post, we are going to talk about what is MusicXML file and its use, and how you can view MusicXML files in Windows 11/10. A MusicXML file is basically used for displaying western musical ...