Free, Easy to Use, High-Quality Music Publisher

[Dub]

MuseScore 2.0 was released earlier today. This is a major upgrade to MuseScore and has been a long time coming. All scores from lead sheets to symphonic arrangements are supported. Lyrics too. Version 2.0 also supports tablature for fretted instruments. Of course chord notation is also supported. You can do shape notes, Byzantine notation pretty much anything.

If you have any use for a music publishing program, you won't beat MuseScore at any price. If you use Sibelius, you probably know that Avid fired all the developers. If you use Finalé, you're probably tired of relearning it every time it gets an update or digging out the arcane combinations to get what you want.

I've uploaded a simple lead sheet I did today. Check out their site for lots of PD scores especially in the classical arena. One treat is their Open Goldberg Variations. T-Bob and Kramster (and maybe others) might be interested in those.

I know it's a pain to learn a new way but try it. If you don't like it I give you your money back.


You_Belong_To_Me.pdf (227.46 KB)

[Marshall]

Thanks. I'll look into it. But I have a question. Can you just plunk in notes without setting measures and beats and rests and stuff? When I sit down and work out a song. I just know the notes. Later I want to come back and fit the time structure of the song. But the programs expect me to have all of that worked out already. If i decide to change a 1/4 note to a half note, they won't let me do it, because the beats per measure are off. Of course I know that and will make the right modifications in a minute. But the programs I've tried are like a straight jacket. If you don't have the time signature and the note values worked out before you start inputting, you're toast. And that's not the way I think of music.

Other people told me you work all that out on paper first, then you input the correct notation in the program. But to me that's silly. That makes you do it twice. That's more work than just doing it by hand (which you have to do anyway).

[Dub]

MuseScore also keeps track of "errors", where the beats in a measure don't agree with the time signature, but I think it will let you do it. You can also create a score as “plainsong” without any bar lines at all. You can go back and put in the bar lines later.

You can also import MIDI files. If you have a keyboard app on your tablet or phone, you can enter ideas that way and just import the MIDI file into MuseScore.

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[RickW]

I use notion on the iPad, and really like it. I have yet to find something that I love, but notion does pretty good. Looking forward to getting full midi on Auria, the daw I use, and working pieces back and forth between the two.

[Shannon]

Thanks, Dub! That looks great!

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[Marshall]

Thanks for resurrecting this thread. (Easter, right? ). I was going to ask you what that software was again.

I'm downloading it now.