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<h1 id="awesome-sheet-music">Awesome Sheet Music</h1>
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<p>A curated list of awesome tools to create, edit and display sheet
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music.</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>[!TIP] <sup>Sponsored by:</sup><br />
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<strong>Airsequel Sheet Music - Open source sheet music management
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app.</strong><br />
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<sub>🌐 <a
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href="https://sheet-music.airsequel.app">sheet-music.airsequel.app</a></sub><br />
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<sub>🖥️ <a
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href="https://github.com/Airsequel/Airsequel-Sheet-Music">github.com/Airsequel/Airsequel-Sheet-Music</a></sub></p>
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</blockquote>
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<hr />
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<p><strong>Table Of Contents</strong></p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#music-notation-software">Music Notation Software</a></li>
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<li><a href="#archives">Archives</a></li>
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<li><a href="#software-libraries">Software Libraries</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#ai-powered">AI Powered</a></li>
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</ul></li>
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<li><a href="#websites">Websites</a></li>
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<li><a href="#apps">Apps</a></li>
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<li><a href="#notations">Notations</a></li>
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<li><a href="#hardware">Hardware</a></li>
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<li><a href="#resources">Resources</a></li>
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<li><a href="#omr-optical-music-recognition">OMR (Optical Music
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Recognition)</a></li>
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<li><a href="#research">Research</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="music-notation-software">Music Notation Software</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://capella.de">capella</a> (commercial) - Create
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complete scores.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/dorico/start.html">dorico</a>
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(commercial) - Desktop notation software created largely by former
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developers of the competing product Sibelius.</li>
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<li><a href="http://finalemusic.com">finale</a> (commercial) - Compose,
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arrange, notate and print engraver-quality sheet music.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.common-lisp.net/project/gsharp/">Gsharp</a> -
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Interactive extensible score editor.</li>
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<li><a href="http://lilypond.org">LilyPond</a> - Program and file format
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for music engraving.</li>
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<li><a href="https://mei-friend.mdw.ac.at">mei-friend</a> -
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Browser-based editor for music encodings.</li>
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<li><a href="http://musescore.com">MuseScore</a> - Create, play and
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print sheet music.</li>
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<li><a href="http://opusmodus.com">opusmodus</a> (commercial) - Software
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for music composition.</li>
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<li><a href="http://sibelius.com">sibelius</a> (commercial) - Create and
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share scores.</li>
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<li><a href="https://unisonofficial.com/html/about.html">Unison</a>
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(commercial) - Create sheet music by describing it with simple
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words.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="archives">Archives</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.bach-digital.de">Bach digital</a> - Platform to
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browse through original sources of J. S. Bach and his sons.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.cmme.org">CMME</a> - Computerized mensural
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music editing and database of scores.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.cpdl.org">CPDL</a> - The Choral Public Domain
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Library, an archive focused on choral and vocal music.</li>
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<li><a href="https://dme.mozarteum.at/en/">Digital Mozart Edition</a> -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s works in digital formats.</li>
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<li><a href="http://flutetunes.com">flutetunes.com</a> - Free sheet
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music for the flute.</li>
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<li><a href="http://imslp.org">IMSLP</a> - The International Music Score
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Library Project to share the world’s public domain music.</li>
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<li><a href="http://kern.humdrum.org/">Kern Scores</a> - Library of
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musical scores in the Humdrum **kern data format.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/cellist/Lilypond-Sheet-Music">Lilypond-Sheet-Music</a>
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- Cello music typeset with <a
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href="http://lilypond.org">LilyPond</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://musescore.com">MuseScore</a> - Share your sheet
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music and comment on others.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.mutopiaproject.org">mutopia</a> - Sheet music
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editions of classical music for free. Repository available at <a
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href="https://github.com/chrissawer/The-Mutopia-Project">github.com
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mutopia</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/veltzer/openbook">openbook</a> - Open <a
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href="http://lilypond.org">LilyPond</a> real book for jazz
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musicians.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="software-libraries">Software Libraries</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/alda-lang/alda">alda</a> - Music
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programming language for musicians.</li>
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<li><a href="http://alphatab.net">alphatab</a> - Cross platform music
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notation and guitar tablature rendering library.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/starenka/chordata">ChorData</a> - Dummy
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chordbook for mandolin, ukulele and guitar.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/no-chris/chord-mark/">chord-mark</a> -
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Reference implementation of the <a
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href="https://chordmark.netlify.app/">ChordMark</a> notation.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.chordpro.org">chordpro</a> - Reference
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implementation of the <a href="https://www.chordpro.org">ChordPro</a>
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standard.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/PatWie/digitalmusicstand">Digital Music
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Stand</a> - A simple browser-based viewer to display and search music
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sheets.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/carterenyi/emviz">EMViz</a> - Visualize
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melodic patterns in MIDI files with arc diagrams.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/philburk/hmsl">hmsl</a> - Hierarchical
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Music Specification Language. Forth tools for experimental music from
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the 1980’s</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/crbulakites/hum">Hum</a> - Music
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notation language and synthesizer.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/adius/lilynode">lilynode</a> - Node.js
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wrapper for <a href="http://lilypond.org">LilyPond</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/adius/lilyware">lilyware</a> - Node.js
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middleware for serving rendered <a
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href="http://lilypond.org">LilyPond</a> files.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/aspiers/ly2video">ly2video</a> -
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Generating videos from <a href="http://lilypond.org">LilyPond</a>
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projects.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/Mistodon/melo">Melo</a> - Music notation
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language and compiler to MIDI.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/Josef-Friedrich/mscxyz">mscxyz</a> -
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Manipulate <a href="http://musescore.com">MuseScore</a>’s XML based mscx
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files.</li>
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<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/music-sheet-viewer/">Music
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Sheet Viewer</a> - Wordpress plugin to embed sheet music with shortcode
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tags.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/cuthbertLab/music21">music21</a> -
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Toolkit for computational musicology.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/PencilCode/musical.js">musical.js</a> -
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A sequencing WebAudio synthesizer that supports ABC notation.</li>
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<li><a href="https://openlilylib.org">openLilyLib</a> - Enhancement
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library for <a href="http://lilypond.org">LilyPond</a>.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/opensheetmusicdisplay/opensheetmusicdisplay">OpenSheetMusicDisplay</a>
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- TypeScript library for rendering MusicXML in the browser.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/Vassantha/ScoreAnalyzer">ScoreAnalyzer</a> -
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Analyze piano sheet music for technical difficulties.</li>
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<li><a href="https://sheetable.net">SheetAble</a> - Self-hostable server
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for organizing sheet music.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/sonovice/smude">Smude</a> - A library
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dedicated to binarization and dewarping of sheet music images.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/rism-ch/verovio">verovio</a> - An
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library and toolkit for engraving MEI music notation into SVG.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/vexflow/vexflow">VexFlow</a> -
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TypeScript library for rendering music notation & guitar
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tablature.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/btwael/zazate.js">zazate.js</a> - Music
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theory and notation library for javascript and node.js.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/LearningNerd/seeplay">SeePlay</a> -
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Webapp to teach sight reading of sheet music.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="ai-powered">AI Powered</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.lunaverus.com">AnthemScore</a> - Automatically
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create sheet music from audio.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/bytedance/piano_transcription">Piano
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Transcription</a> - Transcribe piano recordings to MIDI files.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/chrisdonahue/sheetsage">Sheet Sage</a> -
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Transcribe pop songs to lead sheets (melody + chords).</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="websites">Websites</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/Airsequel/Airsequel-Sheet-Music">Airsequel
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Sheet Music</a> - Sheet music management app powered by <a
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href="https://www.airsequel.com">Airsequel</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://chordmark.netlify.app/">ChordMark</a> - Simple text
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format for the notation of lyrics, chords and rhythm.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.chordpro.org">ChordPro</a> - Simple text format
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for the notation of lyrics with chords.</li>
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<li><a href="https://clairnote.org">Clairnote</a> - Alternative music
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notation to ease reading and understanding.</li>
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<li><a href="https://flat.io">flat.io</a> (commercial) - The online
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music score editor for your compositions.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.flowkey.com/en">flowkey</a> (commercial) -
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Interactive app to learn how to play the piano.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/fredericcormier/Fretboard">Fretboard
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1</a> - Chords, scales, and fingerings for string instruments.</li>
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<li><a href="http://davidpots.com/fretboard/">Fretboard 2</a> - Chord
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diagrams for Guitar.</li>
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<li><a href="http://playsongnotes.com/fretmonster">Fretmonster</a> -
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Fingering charts app for Guitar, Ukulele, Bass, and Mandolin.</li>
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<li><a href="https://guitardashboard.com/">Guitar Dashboard</a> - An
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interactive music theory dashboard for guitarists.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.hacklily.org">hacklily</a> - Online <a
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href="http://lilypond.org">LilyPond</a> based sheet music editor.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.partitionnumerique.com">La Partition
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Numerique</a> - French speaking site dedicated to the future of musical
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scores.</li>
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<li><a href="http://lilybin.com">lilybin</a> - Web-based editor and
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GitHub project.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.microharmonic.com">microharmonic</a> -
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Microtone keyboard. and chord diagrams without the need for special
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tools.</li>
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<li><a href="https://newzik.com">Newzik</a> - Collaborative sheet music
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management app and reader for web, iPadOS, and macOS.</li>
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<li><a href="http://noteflight.com">noteflight</a> (commercial) -
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Browser based music notation creator and music composition
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community.</li>
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<li><a href="https://pianogym.com">PianoGym</a> - Piano sight reading
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exercises and flash cards.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.pianohub.io">PianoHub</a> - Create and share
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music in your browser.</li>
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<li><a href="https://pianu.com">Pianu</a> - Learn how to play the piano
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with interactive lessons.</li>
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<li><a href="https://playgroundsessions.com">playgroundsessions</a>
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(commercial) - Learn how to play the piano with interactive lessons
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featuring your favorite songs.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.kevinqi.com/react-piano/">react-piano</a> -
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Interactive piano keyboard for React.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.soundslice.com">Soundslice</a> (commercial) -
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Browse and create sheet music/tab synced with audio/video
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performances.</li>
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<li><a href="http://synthesiagame.com">synthesiagame</a> (commercial) -
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Learn how to play the piano using falling notes.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/tiredpixel/z.2016-01-19.tunefl">tunefl</a> -
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Freely generate and share mini <a
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href="http://lilypond.org">LilyPond</a> scores with ease.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="apps">Apps</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://composerssketchpad.com">Composer’s Sketchpad</a> -
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Sequencer that combines musical staff paper with an artist’s sketchbook
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(iOS only).</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.dodekamusic.com/products/dodeka-music-app/">Dodeka</a>
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- App to learn how to play the piano (iPad only).</li>
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<li><a href="https://enote.com">Enote</a> - Digital sheet music app with
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large library (iPadOS, iOS).</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.nkoda.com">Nkoda</a> - Find, organize, and
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annotate sheet music.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/pianobooster/PianoBooster">PianoBooster</a> -
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MIDI file player displaying musical notes and teaching how to play the
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piano.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.staffpad.net">StaffPad</a> - Music composition
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app, designed for pen and touch.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="notations">Notations</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="https://www.dodekamusic.com/learn/alternative-music-notation/">Dodeka
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Music Notation</a> - A simple yet powerful alternative music
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notation.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/elaforge/karya">Karya</a> - Music
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sequencer and generalized notation.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="hardware">Hardware</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="https://github.com/onlaj/Piano-LED-Visualizer">Piano-LED-Visualizer</a>
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- Enhanced piano playing with a Raspberry Pi powered LED strip.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="resources">Resources</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="http://freemusiced.org/free-sheet-music-links.html">freemusiced</a>
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- Fingering charts, scale sheets, free sheet music and links to
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resources on the internet.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Online_Digital_Musical_Document_Libraries">List
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of Online Digital Musical Document Libraries</a> - Wikipedia list of
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online archives.</li>
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<li><a
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href="https://llllllll.co/t/experimental-music-notation-resources">llllllll.co/…</a>
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- Discussion about experimental music notation resources.</li>
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<li><a href="https://w3c.github.io/mnx/">MNX</a> - XML based next
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generation music markup proposal.</li>
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<li><a href="https://music-encoding.org">MEI</a> - Music Encoding
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Initiative. Community-driven, open-source effort to define a system for
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encoding musical documents.</li>
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<li><a href="https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/index.html">SMuFL</a> -
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Standard Music Font Layout.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.vifamusik.de">ViFaMusik</a> - Information
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platform for research on music and musicology.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/">W3C Music
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Notation Community Group</a> - Standards group developing MusicXML, <a
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href="https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/index.html">SMuFL</a> and <a
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href="https://w3c.github.io/mnx/">MNX</a>-Common formats.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="omr-optical-music-recognition">OMR (Optical Music
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Recognition)</h2>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/Audiveris/audiveris">Audiveris</a> -
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Optical music recognition app for scanned scores.</li>
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<li><a href="https://gamera.informatik.hsnr.de/">Gamera</a> - Toolkit
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for building document image recognition systems.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.playscore.co">PlayScore</a> – Sheet Music
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Scanning App (iOS, Android, Windows).</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/DDMAL/Rodan">Rodan</a> - Web-based
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document recognition system.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="research">Research</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://ddmal.music.mcgill.ca">Distributed digital music
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archives and libraries lab</a> - Development and evaluation of
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practices, frameworks and tools for the design and construction of
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worldwide distributed digital music archives and libraries.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/xwsxethan/MusicScoring">MusicScoring</a>
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- Automatically generate scores for difficult pieces of music.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/hypotext/notation">Notation and
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Thought</a> - Notation design and how it affects thought.</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/OMR-Research">OMR Research</a> -
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Research hub for Optical Music Recognition.</li>
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</ul>
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