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Music notation and composition software
MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, and bug reports visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
Features
- 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
- MuseData import
- MIDI input for note entry
- Integrated sequencer and software synthesizer to play the score
- Print or create pdf files
More info
License
MuseScore is licensed under GPL version 2.0. See LICENSE.GPL in the same directory.
Packages
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aeolus Clone of Aeolus Disabled by default in the stable releases. See http://dev-list.musescore.org/Aeolus-Organ-Synth-td7578364.html Kept as an example of how to integrate with a complex synthesizer.
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assets Graphical assets, use them if you need a MuseScore icon. For logo, color etc... see https://musescore.org/en/about/logos-and-graphics
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awl Audio Widget Library, from the MusE project
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build Utility files for build
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bww2mxml Command line tool to convert BWW files to MusicXML. BWW parser is used by MuseScore to import BWW files.
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demos A few MuseScore files to demonstrate what can be done
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fluid Clone of FluidSynth, ported to C++ and customized
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fonts Contains fontforge source (sfd) + ttf/otf fonts. MuseScore includes the "Emmentaler" font from the Lilypond project.
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libmscore Data model of MuseScore
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mscore Main code for the MuseScore UI
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msynth Abstract interface to Fluid + Aeolus
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mtest Unit testing using QTest
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omr Optical music recognition
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share Files moved to /usr/share/... on install
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test Old tests. Should move to mtest
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vtest Visual tests. Compare reference images with current implementation
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thirdparty Contains projects which are included for convenience, usually to integrate them into the build system to make them available for all supported platforms.
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thirdparty/rtf2html Used for capella import
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thirdparty/dtl Used for the score comparison tool. Diff Template Library
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thirdparty/ofqf OSC server interface. Based on OSC for Qt4
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thirdparty/singleapp Clone from Qt Single Application
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thirdparty/portmidi Clone from PortMidi
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thirdparty/beatroot It's a core part of BeatRoot Vamp Plugin by Simon Dixon and Chris Cannam, used in MIDI import for beat detection. (https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/beatroot-vamp/repository)
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Building
Read the developer handbook for a complete build walkthrough and a list of dependencies.
Getting sources
If using git to download repo of entire code history, type:
git clone https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore.git
cd MuseScore
Otherwise, you can just download the latest source release tarball from https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/releases, and then from your download directory type:
tar xzf MuseScore-x.x.x.tar.gz
cd MuseScore-x.x.x
Release Build
To compile MuseScore, type:
make release
If something goes wrong, then remove the whole build subdirectory with make clean and start new with make release.
Running
To start MuseScore, type:
./build.release/mscore/mscore
The Start Center window will appear on every invocation until you disable that setting via the "Preferences" dialog.
Installing
To install to default prefix using root user, type:
sudo make install
Debug Build
A debug version can be built by doing make debug instead of make release.
To run the debug version, type:
./build.debug/mscore/mscore
Testing
See mtest/README.md or the developer handbook for instructions on how to run the test suite.
The new script testing facility is also available to create your own automated tests. Please try it out!