LilyPond Alternatives

LilyPond is described as 'GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPonds major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand' and is a music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to LilyPond for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and iPhone apps. The best LilyPond alternative is MuseScore Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LilyPond are TuxGuitar, Dorico, OpenMPT and Avid Sibelius.

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  1. Bring musical inspirations to life with the blazingly fast and intuitive Notion™ 6 music composition and performance environment. Compose when and how you want and even enter music with your own handwriting.

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  2. EasyABC icon
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    EasyABC allows you to edit and play abc files. It supports conversion from MusicXML and MIDI to ABC. The latter uses a custom implementation (midi2abc is not used) in order to produce very readable ABC output. Direct midi input is supported for people with a midi keyboard.

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  3. Impro-Visor icon
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    Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

    63 Impro-Visor alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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  4. capella icon
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    With capella you can instantly create complete scores. No other notation program will take you by the hand and gently guide you towards your first own score in the manner in which capella does it. There is no need to be fully computer literate - you just follow your musical...

    34 capella alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
     
  5. Opusmodus icon
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    Opusmodus is a comprehensive computer-aided environment for the whole work of music composition a virtual space where a composer can develop ideas and experiments for projects large and small. Opusmodus allows you to explore more than one structure at the same time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  6. NoteWorthy Composer is a graphical score editor intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export graphical WMFs. The user interface works either from the keyboard or the mouse.

    54 NoteWorthy Composer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  7. music21 icon
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    Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology. Applications of this toolkit include computational musicology, music informations, musical example extraction and generation, music notation editing and scripting, and a wide variety of approaches to composition, bo.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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  8. MagicScore icon
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    MagicScore is an easy and powerful music notation and composition software. MagicScore is the smart choice for musicians, composers, arrangers, teachers, students, choirs, ensembles and songwriters. Moreover, the prices of our products are really low.

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
     
  9. Forte is an music notation software developed by the German company Lugert Verlag Publishing House in Handorf near Hamburg. This software is available internationally as a user-friendly, affordable alternative to complex and expensive current music notation programs.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  10. Pizzicato icon
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    Pizzicato is a music software to write and print your sheet music, but also to arrange and compose your own music or even learn music and music composition.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
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    • Mac
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  11. Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  12. Graphical Notation is an app for music creation and graphical notation using Artificial Intelligence.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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