Notation, Freeware
| Notation - Here you will find a collection of software for reading, writing and understanding musical notation. Programs vary from simple notation printing software to sophisticated notation editors. Software for scanning notation can be found in the Notation Scanning category. | |
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| Software | Description | OS | License | File Date | Comments | Power |
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| Finale Notepad 2012 | Basic music notation software. Go to the full commercial version of Finale | Windows | Freeware | 2012-02-22 | 121 | 85db |
| TuneSmith 2.0 | TuneSmith is a songwriting companion program to fine-tune the creation and management of songs. | Windows | Freeware | 2013-02-04 | 0 | 75db |
| Finale Notepad 2012 | Basic music notation software. | Mac | Freeware | 2012-02-22 | 1 | 70db |
| Slow MP3 | Slow MP3 is a musician's music player that can slow down, transpose and transcribe songs on the fly. | Mac | Freeware | 2010-09-27 | 11 | 70db |
| Radium v1.9.30 | Radium is a free music and notation editor with its own unique interface. | Linux | Freeware | 2013-05-01 | 0 | 70db |
| TuneSmith v2.0 | Songwriting companion to fine-tune the creation and management of songs. | Mac | Freeware | 2013-02-04 | 0 | 65db |
| Notation Player v1.0 | Downloads and displays music (MIDI) files as sheet music that you can view on the screen while the notes play, and also print. | Windows | Freeware | 2008-07-02 | 1 | 65db |
| Musette v2.9.15 | Free Music/Song Notation Editor. | Windows | Freeware | 2011-04-30 | 9 | 65db |
| Music Trainers 2.1.2 | Musicial training for notes, key, intervals and scales | Mac | Freeware | 2001-07-07 | 1 | 60db |
| Nootka 0.8.77 beta | Nootka is a tuition program that helps with teaching and learning classical score notation. | Linux | Freeware | 2013-04-24 | 0 | 60db |
| Vivaldi Play Along | Entry-level notation software | Windows | Freeware | 2003-01-01 | 3 | 60db |
| LilyPond v2.17.14 | Produces sheet music using a high level description file. | Windows | Freeware | 2013-03-18 | 2 | 60db |
| BitMapMusic 68K 2.0 | A music notation program. | Mac | Freeware | 2000-03-01 | 13 | 60db |
| PriMus Free | Free and easy to use music notation program | Windows | Freeware | 2011-09-19 | 2 | 60db |
| Nootka 0.8.77 beta | Nootka is an application to help with teaching and learning classical score notation. | Windows | Freeware | 2013-04-24 | 0 | 60db |
| Forte Free | Creates an ideal environment for making the kind of music you've always dreamed of. It's the first music software to strike the perfect balance between infinite creativity and deceptively simple recording tools. | Windows | Freeware | 2009-11-25 | 0 | 60db |
| piaScore HD v2.3.2 | piaScore is a digital sheet music reader and utility application for iOS devices. | iPhone | Freeware | 2012-09-10 | 0 | 60db |
| Digital Music Notebook v2.0.0e | Manage music sheets and instruction materials. | Windows | Freeware | 2005-11-30 | 3 | 60db |
| Note Attack v1.36 | Learn to read sheet music with this free MIDI educational video game | Windows | Freeware | 1 | 60db | |
| Slow MP3 | Slow MP3 is a musician's music player that can slow down, transpose and transcribe songs on the fly. | Linux | Freeware | 2010-09-27 | 1 | 60db |
| Melody Player v6.1.3 | Play Midi, MOD, S3M and files created with Harmony or Melody Assistant. | Windows | Freeware | 2009-04-23 | 0 | 60db |
| VBRhapsody v1.0 | Classical music notation editing software capable of producing high quality printed scores with MIDI input and output. | Windows | Freeware | 2009-03-02 | 2 | 60db |
| Blank Sheet Music | Blank Sheet Music for Guitar, Piano, Bass Guitar, Choir, Drums, Violin, Mandolin, and all other kinds of musical instruments. | Windows | Freeware | 2011-03-08 | 0 | 60db |
| TEFview TablEdit File Viewer 2.60 | Displays, plays and prints tablature and sheet music | Windows | Freeware | 3 | 55db | |
| Crescendo v1.0 | Create your own sheet music with music notation and composition software. | Windows | Freeware | 2010-02-05 | 0 | 55db |
| Xenoage MusicXML Player | Plays back MusicXML files and converts them to MIDI. | Windows | Freeware | 2004-05-12 | 1 | 55db |
| LilyPond v2.17.14 | Produces sheet music using a high level description file. | Mac | Freeware | 2013-03-18 | 3 | 55db |
| LilyPond v2.17.14 | Produces sheet music using a high level description file. | Linux | Freeware | 2013-03-18 | 0 | 55db |
| Scorch 2 | The leading technology for viewing, playing and transposing music notation on the Internet. | Windows | Freeware | 2001-01-01 | 9 | 55db |
| Score Editor Capriccio | Capriccio is a free scorewriter. You can use it to create scores, play or export them to the popular formats such as music XML, pdf or jpg. | Windows | Freeware | 2011-11-18 | 0 | 55db |
