Re: [Sheflug] Editing Music Scores

[(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23-Mar-08 11:42:37, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hmmm...
> 
> One of the lads who has been to quite a few of our meetings keeps 
> going on at me about music editing software for the Linux desktop.  
> Says he has to use winduhs to edit the music he writes and uses.  I 
> think he's a keen classical music fan.  Strangely, this would seem to 
> have been taken care of in recent times....
> 
> http://mscore.sourceforge.net/en/idx.php
> 
> I think it's fairly obvious that it's in it's early stages but my own 
> version is 0.91 and it just about does what it claims.  Can save in 
> PDF and postscript as well as some others.

There are others too, and have been for some time. Here are a few.

Rosegarden
  http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
See a good review at:
  http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000201

This is for people who like to plant their notation by drag-&-drop.

A few others:

MusiXTeX:
  http://directory.fsf.org/project/MusiXTex/

  "MusiXTeX is a set of macros and fonts that lets TeX typeset
   music. To use it, at a minimum you must copy the macro and
   font files to the right directories in your particular TeX
   file structure, have the binary musixflx available to run,
   and have a TeX input file containing the proper commands.
   It's a three pass system: TeX, musixflx, then TeX again."

This is doing it the hard way (and you'd better be used to
using TeX as well). It's based on preparing a text file which
describes the musical score; with the MusiXTeX macros, TeX can
then typeset the score. However, it seems there is a GUI-type
front-end for it:

  MuX2d:
  http://mux2d.sourceforge.net/

Lilypond:
  http://lilypond.org/web

Another text-file input system. Check out the website for details.

MUP:
  http://www.arkkra.com/

This too starts with a text-description (in very compact
symbolism) of the intended musical score. The resulting
typeset output (PS) is of excellent quality.

It's not free, but shareware: you get a free trial, and you
pay $29 for a once-and-for-all registration.

I've used it a lot myself, and like it very much.

That's just a few of the possibilities.

Best wishes to all,
Ted.

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