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A categorized collection of awesome music libraries, tools, frameworks and software.

Contributions and suggestions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines and quality standard (https://github.com/ciconia/awesome-music/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) first.

Thanks to all contributors (https://github.com/ciconia/awesome-music/graphs/contributors), you're awesome and this project wouldn't be possible without you!

⟡ Awesome Music (#awesome-music)
  ⟡ Audio Editing (#audio-editing)
  ⟡ Audio Libraries (#audio-libraries)
  ⟡ Audio Tools (#audio-tools)
  ⟡ Free Music Scores (#free-music-scores)
  ⟡ MIDI Tools & Libraries (#midi-tools--libraries)
  ⟡ Music Notation (#music-notation)
  ⟡ Music Programming (#music-programming)
  ⟡ Music Theory (#music-theory-teaching)
  ⟡ Standards (#standards)
⟡ Other Awesomeness (#other-awesomeness)
  ⟡ Related lists (#related-lists)

Audio Editing

⟡ Audacity (https://github.com/audacity/audacity) - a free, cross-platform digital audio editor.
⟡ Ardour (http://ardour.org/) - a cross-platform digital audio workstation emphasizing audio recording.
⟡ LMMS (https://lmms.io/) - another cross-platform digital audio workstation, more oriented towards making beats.
⟡ OpenUtau (https://github.com/stakira/openutau/) - A free, cross-platform singing voice synthesis framework.
⟡ snd (https://sourceforge.net/projects/snd/) - Snd is a sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs.
⟡ Stargate DAW (https://github.com/stargatedaw/stargate/) - A cross-platform, all-in-one digital audio workstation and plugin suite, optimized for EDM production.
⟡ TuneFlow (https://tuneflow.com/) - a next-gen DAW that helps you generate melody, beats, or a whole song, while still being able to edit them.

Audio Libraries

⟡ audio.js (https://github.com/kolber/audiojs) - audio.js is a drop-in javascript library that allows HTML5's <audio> tag to be used anywhere.
⟡ audioFlux (https://github.com/libAudioFlux/audioFlux) - A library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction.
⟡ chord-mark (https://github.com/no-chris/chord-mark) - reference implementation of ChordMark, a text notation format for lyrics, chords and rhythm.
⟡ howler.js (https://github.com/goldfire/howler.js) - a Javascript audio library for the modern web.
⟡ JSyn (http://www.softsynth.com/jsyn/) - an audio synthesis software API for Java.
⟡ Librosa (https://github.com/librosa/librosa) - a python package for music and audio analysis, providing the building blocks necessary to create music information retrieval systems.
⟡ midi.js (https://github.com/mudcube/MIDI.js) - a framework for creating web-based MIDI apps.
⟡ mxml (https://github.com/venturemedia/mxml) - MusicXML parsing and layout library.
⟡ PortAudio (http://www.portaudio.com/) - a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library.
⟡ RustAudio (https://github.com/RustAudio) - an aggregate of free and useful Audio, DSP and music libraries written in Rust.
⟡ Soundpipe (https://pbat.ch/proj/soundpipe.html) - a lightweight DSP library written in C.

Audio Tools

⟡ Beets (http://beets.io/) - a powerful command-line music organizer and manipulator.
⟡ Cecilia (https://github.com/belangeo/cecilia5) - a Pyo-based graphical environment for music and signal processing.
⟡ cyanrip (https://github.com/atomnuker/cyanrip) - rips and encodes standard audio CDs with the least effort required from user. Cross platform.
⟡ fre:ac (https://github.com/enzo1982/freac) - free audio converter. It supports audio CD ripping and tag editing.
⟡ Jack (https://github.com/jack-cli-cd-ripper/jack) - command-line CD ripper.
⟡ K3b (https://github.com/KDE/k3b) - is a full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning and ripping application.
⟡ Koel (https://github.com/phanan/koel) - an open-source personal audio streaming server.
⟡ Lame (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) - a high quality, free and open-source MP3 encoder.
⟡ lltag (https://github.com/bgoglin/lltag) - automatic command-line mp3/ogg/flac file tagger and renamer.
⟡ matchering (https://github.com/sergree/matchering) - сontainerized web application and library for automated reference audio mastering.
⟡ MusicBrainz (https://musicbrainz.org) - Open Encyclopedia for Music information and Metadata, providing a unique ID for everything
⟡ Musikernel (https://github.com/j3ffhubb/musikernel) - a futuristic audio production platform (hardware support, APIs, hosts, plugins and more)
⟡ Rubyripper (https://github.com/bleskodev/rubyripper) - is a secure digital audio extraction application ("cd ripper") for Unix-like operating systems.
⟡ SoX (http://sox.sourceforge.net/) - a free open-source command line utility for playing, converting and manipulating audio files.
⟡ split2flac (https://github.com/ftrvxmtrx/split2flac) - split flac/ape/wv/wav + cue sheet into separate tracks
⟡ Whipper (https://github.com/JoeLametta/whipper) - Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed.
⟡ X Audio Copy (https://github.com/giorgiofranceschi/xaudiocopy) - GTK and GNOME application for ripping CD-Audio and encoding in lossy and lossless audio formats.

Free Music Scores

⟡ bayanguru (https://bayanguru.org/) - engraving and publishing system that produces high quality sheet music for bayan in PDF.
⟡ cellist/Lilypond-Sheet-Music (https://github.com/cellist/Lilypond-Sheet-Music) - a collection of music typeset with lilypond (mostly chamber music and music for cello).
⟡ ciconia/music (https://github.com/ciconia/music) - a collection of mostly baroque music, lots of sacred works by J. S. Bach, coded in lilypond/ripple.
⟡ CPDL (http://www.cpdl.org/) - the choral public domain library contains more than 20K free scores of vocal music.
⟡ Éditions Nicolas Sceaux (https://github.com/nsceaux/nenuvar) - baroque music scores (mainly French music), typeset using lilypond.
⟡ IMSLP (http://imslp.org/) - the International Music Score Library Project is the largest collection of public domain scores and parts on the web.
⟡ Lavender Blue Open-Scores (https://github.com/madrisan/open-scores) - open scores for piano encoded using lilypond.
⟡ Mutopia (https://github.com/MutopiaProject/MutopiaProject) - sheet music based on editions in the public domain.
⟡ wbsoft/lilymusic (https://github.com/wbsoft/lilymusic) - beautiful LilyPond scores under free licenses.

MIDI Tools & Libraries

⟡ JJazzLab-X (https://github.com/jjazzboss/JJazzLab-X) - a complete Midi-based framework for automatic backing tracks generation.
⟡ Midifile (http://midifile.sapp.org/) - C++ library for parsing Standard MIDI Files.
⟡ mido (https://github.com/mido/mido) - Python library for working with MIDI messages and ports.
⟡ Polyrhythmix (http://github.com/dredozubov/polyrhythmix) - MIDI drums
  generator, designed for polyrhythmic parts
⟡ Timidity (http://timidity.sourceforge.net/) - an open-source command line synthesizer that plays MIDI files.

Music Notation

⟡ Abjad (http://abjad.mbrsi.org/) - a Python API for Formalized Score Control, based on Lilypond.
⟡ ChordMark (https://chordmark.netlify.app/) - a text-based notation format for lyrics, chords and rhythm.
⟡ Denemo (http://www.denemo.org/) - a free music notation editor based on Lilypond.
⟡ Digital Music Stand (https://github.com/PatWie/digitalmusicstand) - a free web app for displaying sheet music.
⟡ Jan Angermüller's music fonts page (http://elbsound.studio/music_fonts.php) - A listing and visual comparison of different music fonts.
⟡ Frescobaldi (https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi) - a free Lilypond sheet music editor.
⟡ Guido (http://guidolib.sourceforge.net/) - a generic, portable library and API for the graphical rendering of musical scores.
⟡ Hacklily (https://www.hacklily.org) - online LilyPond-based sheet music editor (with optional GitHub integration).
⟡ Inknote (https://github.com/MichalPaszkiewicz/inknote) - free, open source, browser based music notation and composition software.
⟡ JotChord (https://www.jotchord.com) - an online, text-based editor for making PDF-formatted Nashville Number System song charts.
⟡ LibMEI (https://github.com/DDMAL/libmei) - a C++ library for reading and writing MEI files.
⟡ Lilybin (http://lilybin.com/) - an open source web-based LilyPond editor.
⟡ Lilypond (http://lilypond.org/) - free, open-source music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible.
⟡ Lilypond cook book (https://github.com/noteflakes/lilypond-cookbook/wiki/) - tips & tricks for getting the most out of lilypond.
⟡ Lilypond Snippet Repository (http://lsr.di.unimi.it/) - an online database of Lilypond snippets ideas, features and hacks.
⟡ Lilyvm (https://github.com/olsonpm/lilyvm) - Lilypond version manager.
⟡ Lyp (https://github.com/noteflakes/lyp) - the Lilypond swiss army knife - easily install packages, manage multiple versions of Lilypond, and other tools for power users.
⟡ mei-friend (https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at) - a friendly, browser-based editor for music encodings.
⟡ MuseScore (https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore) - free open-source music notation and composition software.
⟡ MusicKit (https://github.com/venturemedia/musickit) - Music sheet rendering for iOS and OSX.
⟡ neoscore (https://neoscore.org/) - python library for notating music in a graphics-first paradigm.
⟡ NOTATIO (http://notat.io/) - a forum devoted to the practice of music notation.
⟡ OpenLilyLib (https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/) - LilyPond tools - snippets, templates, and extensions.
⟡ OpenSheetMusicDisplay (https://github.com/opensheetmusicdisplay/opensheetmusicdisplay) - Typescript library for rendering MusicXML in the browser.
⟡ Python-ly (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-ly) - a tool and library for manipulating LilyPond files.
⟡ Ripple (https://github.com/ciconia/ripple/) - DRY for Lilypond - generate scores and parts with minimal fuss.
⟡ Scorelib (http://scorelib.sapp.org/) - a C++ library for parsing SCORE data files.
⟡ Tbon (https://github.com/Michael-F-Ellis/tbon) - Typographic Beat-Oriented Notation for music.
⟡ Unison (https://unisonofficial.com/html/user-documentation.html?title=unison-editor) - Proprietary software for creating music score with words.
⟡ Verovio (https://github.com/rism-ch/verovio) - a library and a toolkit for engraving MEI music notation into SVG.
⟡ Vexflow (https://github.com/0xfe/vexflow) - a JavaScript library for rendering music notation and guitar tablature.

Music Programming

⟡ Alda (https://github.com/alda-lang/alda) - a music programming language for musicians.
⟡ Bach: Automated Composer's Helper (http://www.bachproject.net/) - a cross-platform set of patches and externals for Max, aimed to bring the richness of computer-aided composition into the real-time world.
⟡ Cane (https://github.com/Jackojc/cane) - A small MIDI sequencer DSL designed around vectors and euclidean rhythms.
⟡ Chuck (https://github.com/ccrma/chuck) - strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language.
⟡ CoffeeCollider (https://github.com/mohayonao/CoffeeCollider) - a language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition in HTML5. "Write CoffeeScript, and be processed as SuperCollider."
⟡ Common Music (http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/) - an open source music composition system.
⟡ Csound (http://csound.github.io/) - a user-programmable and user-extensible sound processing language and software synthesizer.
⟡ DrumBeatRepo (https://github.com/babali42/drumbeatrepo) - A rhythm library for playing drum beats of differents music genres in the browser.
⟡ Faust (http://faust.grame.fr/) - a functional programming language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and synthesis.
⟡ Gwion (https://github.com/Gwion/Gwion) - A strongly-timed programming language aimed at music creation. Heavily inspired by ChucK.
⟡ IanniX (https://github.com/iannix/IanniX) - a graphical open-source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art.
⟡ Inscore (http://inscore.sourceforge.net/) - an environmnent for the design of interactive, augmented music scores.
⟡ Leipzig (https://github.com/ctford/leipzig) - a composition library for Overtone.
⟡ Leiter (https://github.com/kad1kad/leiter) - TypeScript-based library designed to generate musical scales.
⟡ Midica (https://github.com/truj/midica) - MIDI programming language with decompiler and player, supports karaoke.
⟡ music21 (http://web.mit.edu/music21/) - A Toolkit for Computational Musicology.
⟡ Music Suite (http://music-suite.github.io/docs/ref/) - a language for generalized music notation and theory, based on Haskell.
⟡ mutwo (https://mutwo-org.github.io/) - a Python library for composition that outputs notation, MIDI or audio files and that provides a generalized model to describe time-based structures.
⟡ Nyquist (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/nyquist/) - a sound synthesis and composition language.
⟡ OpenMusic (http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/home) - a visual programming language based on Lisp.
⟡ Orca (https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca) - live programming environment for music.
⟡ Overtone (https://github.com/overtone/overtone/) - an Open Source toolkit for designing synthesizers and collaborating with music.
⟡ Platonic Music Engine (http://www.platonicmusicengine.com/) - an open-source music generation framework written in Lua.
⟡ Pure Data (http://puredata.info/) - a visual programming language for audio and other multimedia.
⟡ pyo (https://belangeo.github.io/pyo/) - a Python module to help digital signal processing script creation.
⟡ py-modular (http://py-modular.readthedocs.io/) - a modular and experimental programming environment with basic DSP routines in python.
⟡ Sardine (https://github.com/Bubobubobubobubo/sardine) - a music live coding library for Python 3.10+ (MIDI/OSC/SuperCollider).
⟡ slippery chicken (https://github.com/mdedwards/slippery-chicken) - a Common Lisp environment for composition building on CLM, CMN, CM, MusicXML and Lilypond for score, sound file, and/or MIDI file outputs.
⟡ Sonic Pi (http://sonic-pi.net/) - a live coding synth with an emphasis on educational use.
⟡ Sporth (https://pbat.ch/proj/sporth.html) - a small stack based audio language.
⟡ Strudel (https://strudel.tidalcycles.org/) - an experiment in making a language built on javascript for live coding patterns using web technologies.
⟡ SuperCollider (http://supercollider.github.io/) - a programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.
⟡ Tidal (https://tidalcycles.org/) - a language built on Haskell for live coding patterns.
⟡ Topos (https://topos.live) - a web based live coding environment (WebAudio / MIDI)
⟡ tuneflow-py (https://github.com/tuneflow/tuneflow-py/) - python plugin SDK for the next-gen DAW, that allows you to program your music algorithms & AI models into all stages of music production
⟡ Unilang (https://unisonofficial.com/html/user-documentation.html?title=unison-editor) - Domain specific language used in Unison.

Music Theory Teaching

⟡ Artusi (https://www.artusi.xyz) - Interactive music theory exercises.
⟡ Four Score and More (https://fourscoreandmore.org/) - Tailored music theory exercises based on scores.
⟡ musictheory.net (https://www.musictheory.net) - Lessons and exercises
⟡ OpenMusicTheory (http://openmusictheory.com/) - a growing, online "textbook" for music theory and aural skills.
⟡ Theorytab (https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab) - a database of songs with their chord functions.

Standards

⟡ MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) (http://music-encoding.org/) - an open-source effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure.
⟡ MusicXML (http://www.musicxml.com/) - the standard open format for exchanging digital sheet music.
⟡ SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout) (http://www.smufl.org/) - a specification for mapping music symbols to Unicode for use in music fonts.

                                                                                                                  Other Awesomeness

Related lists

⟡ Awesome Audio DSP (https://github.com/BillyDM/awesome-audio-dsp) - A curated list of audio DSP and plugin development resources.
⟡ Awesome Audio Visualization (https://github.com/willianjusten/awesome-audio-visualization) - A curated list about Audio Visualization.
⟡ Awesome Music Listening (https://github.com/ybayle/awesome-music-listening) - Awesome list of websites dedicated to listening to music.
⟡ Awesome Music Production (https://github.com/adius/awesome-music-production) - A curated list of software and resources to create music.
⟡ Awesome Music Programming (https://github.com/zoejane/awesome-music-programming) - A curated collection of music programming languages, libraries, frameworks and tools.
⟡ Awesome Python for Scientific Audio (https://github.com/faroit/awesome-python-scientific-audio) - A curated list of python software and packages related to scientific research in audio.
⟡ Awesome sheet music (https://github.com/adius/awesome-sheet-music) - A curated list of awesome sheet music software, libraries and resources.
⟡ Awesome WebAudio (https://github.com/notthetup/awesome-webaudio) - A curated list of awesome WebAudio packages and resources.

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