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• Computers: Multimedia: Music and Audio: Audio Formats  (433)

ABC Music Project  abc.sourceforge.net Promotes and maintains the ABC Music Standard, a format designed to notate music using plain text.

The abc Musical Notation Language  www.norbeck.nu/abcmus ASCII-based notation, with many tools to display, edit, play .abc files on various systems.

The ABC Plus project  abcplus.sourceforge.net Provides software and documentation for the extension to ABC notation which provides for polyphonic music.

ABC2Win  abc2win.com For writing and editing of abc tunes, file management and playback. View tunes as notation. Register for printing.

Arkkra Enterpises  www.arkkra.com [Dos-Linux-Unix] Mup, a batch musical typesetter. Reads a descriptive input file, outputs PostScript and MIDI. Shareware.

Braeburn Music Publisher  www.braeburn.co.uk/mp.htm Editor also offers transposition, playback, and scanning input.

Capella Music Software  www.capella-software.com Score scanning, notation editor; real-time MIDI entry.

Ceol Mor Software Ltd.  www.ceolmor-software.com [Win] Drag and drop bagpipe and drum score writing software. Suitable for beginners and advanced users.

CERL Sound Group  www.cerlsoundgroup.org Analysis/Synthesis and notation software. Fully-functional downloadable trial version available.

ChordMaker  www.virtu-software.com/ChordMaker [Win] Creates chordsheet style guitar tablature and songbooks with table of contents and alphabetized index. Demo available.

Decifra  www.decifra.com/IndexEng.html [Win] For chords and lyrics, with a flexible dictionary. Imports text, suggests chord diagrams (guitar) which can be heard and transposed.

Digital Music Notebook  www.digitalmusicnotebook.com Sibelius application that offers digital sheet music, guitar tab and multimedia method books. Scorch plug-in required.

DrawMusic ChordSong  drawmusic.com Create, play and print chord songs (chords and lyrics).

Encore  www.gvox.com MIDI music composer that helps you go from concept to published score with minimum effort. By GVOX.

GenieSoft  geniesoft.com Create and print sheet music with "Overture 3" and "Score Writer 2" for PC/Mac. Converts MIDI.

Graphire Music Press  www.graphire.com [Mac-Win] Professional music typesetting software: includes features, screenshots, and ordering information.

Guitarmaster  www.guitarmaster.co.uk Produces tablature and Midi files from the chords and melodies you play into your sound card. Demo available.

Igor Engraver  www.noteheads.com [Win-Mac] Professional notation software: includes program features, samples, and a downloadable demo.

Lily Pond  lilypond.org Score printing with many typographical features of traditional engravers.

MagicScore  www.dgalaxy.net/magicscore.php Editor for professionals or hobbyists engaged in study or self-expression.

MidiIllustrator  www.midiillustrator.com Notate, print, practice, and play music from MIDI files. Classical and guitar notations.

MidiNotate  www.notation.com [Win] MIDI player that will convert any MIDI file to sheet music. Demo available.

Mozart  www.mozart.co.uk Music notation program for MS-Windows. Edits, previews, plays, prints full and part scores.

Muse Music Shareware Editor  web.ukonline.co.uk/members/laurie.griffiths [Win] Description, samples, download and payment information.

MusiCAD  www.musicad.com Score editor facilitating arrangements, percussion, lyrics. MIDI, PDF, ABC formats. Windows.

Musicator  www.musicator.com [Win] Audio sequencer with notation capabilities: includes features, screenshots and a downloadable demo.

MusicEase  www.musicease.com [Win] Edit, transpose, print, play, import SongWright and abc files, virtual songs/songbooks. Demo fully-functional.

MusicWrite  www.voyetra.com/site/products/musicwrite/serieshome.asp Compose, play, edit, and print sheet music on your home PC.

Musitek  www.musitek.com [Mac-Win] Featuring SmartScore, that allows you to scan and import sheet music, and then edit and print.

MusiXTeX  icking-music-archive.org/software/indexmt6.html A suite of utilities for typesetting music in TeX. Also houses Werner Icking Music Archive of free sheet music.

Myriad Software  www.myriad-online.com [Mac-Win] Harmony Assistant, Melody Assistant, Virtual Singer voice synthesis, and OMeR music OCR.

Nightingale  www.ngale.com [Mac] Description and ordering information for this easy to learn and use notation program. A free light version available.

Notation Technologies  www.notationtechnologies.com Play Music, an entry level music notation program for composers. Edit, playback, and print facilities. Style templates.

NotationMachine  www.notationmachine.com Sheet music software to search and create your own sheet music from MIDI files.

Note Chaser: Musical Transcription Assistant  www.tnsoptima.com/soundidea/notechaser.html Transcribe music from CD tracks. Display note frequencies and play selections at full or half speed.

NoteWorthy Composer  www.noteworthysoftware.com/composer [Win] Simple music editor that also imports and exports MIDI files. Downloadable shareware demo version.

Opus 1 Music Inc.  debussy.music.ubc.ca/~opus1 Company that develops software for OPENSTEP and Macintosh computers: features NoteAbility Pro and NoteWriter.

Personal Composer  www.personalcomposer.co.uk Sequencing and scoring, record, edit, listen to, and print your music. Windows.

Pizzicato  www.arpegemusic.com MIDI based, helps beginners learn notation and compose. Includes a free music course. Demo available.

QuickScore Elite and Copyist  www.sionsoft.com [Win] Music composition, arranging, notation, MIDI sequencing and recording software.

SharpEye Music Reader  www.visiv.co.uk Music scanning software. Converts sheet music to MIDI, NIFF, MusicXML formats.

TaBazar Tablature Editor  www.tabazar.de Multitrack notation program for fretted instruments and percussion. View, edit, print, and play back scores.

TabTrax  2112design.com Imports drum tabs from internet sources and converts them into standard music format and playable MIDI files.

Turandot  www.turandot.hu Simple score entry, professional printing, access to score library. Supports orchestral and guitar notation.

Vivaldi Studio  www.vivaldistudio.com Publishes musical notation and scan software. Interactive score sheets also.

Yahoo! Groups : Mozart_software  tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mozart_software Mailing list for all users of this program.