Overview

MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests! Create, play back and print beautiful sheet music with free and easy to use music notation software MuseScore Studio. For Windows, Mac and Linux. The project has 14K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under NOASSERTION.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

WYSIWYG design, notes are entered on a “virtual notepaper”
TrueType font(s) for printing & display allows for high quality scaling to all sizes
Easy & fast note entry
Many editing functions
MusicXML import/export
MIDI (SMF) import/export
MEI import/export
MuseData import
MIDI input for note entry
Integrated sequencer and software synthesizer to play the score

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

plugins, wysiwyg editor.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Integrations & APIs

Plugin / Extension System

Media & Files

WYSIWYG Editor

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