[clug] music programs, formats

[Daniel Pittman]

Richard Rose <richard.58 at bigpond.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 23:01 +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of any OS music editors - ie sheet music editing programs
>> in linux?  Are there any open formats for sheet music?

My partner is a musician, and has given some commentary.  Others have
mentioned Rosegarden and Lilypond, which are general purpose scoring
programs.

MuseScore is also worth looking at, and is available on FOSS and non-free
platforms and all.

While she prefers the commercial options, her comment on those was relatively
favourable in terms of basic feature set.  Lilypond especially is good if you
prefer a non-GUI tool.

> I've used the 'abc' suite of programs before. With it you can convert from
> abc format to postscript or midi, transpose the key signature, and even
> convert from midi to abc format.

Her comment on these, and MTX, was that they are vastly better suited to "folk
song" or "plain song" style music than general scoring.

        Daniel
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