With a growing following of passionate converts from Sibelius and Finale, Dorico is becoming a formidable rival. LilyPond can create a wide variety of scores and extracted parts-from solo works to full symphony and opera scores-as well as lead sheets, vocal music, sample exercises intended for educational purposes, tablature, and even Schenkerian analysis.Īvailable for Windows, Mac, and Unix/Linux, LilyPond is an intriguing option for users who have the time and energy to study its online manual, and especially those who already use coding languages. Beyond the basics, it offers advanced typesetting features like cross-staff stems ancient notation types, such as those used for Gregorian chant and modern music notations. However, LilyPond claims to be “devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible,” and once fluent in its language, users can create perhaps the most elegant-looking sheet music of all the programs reviewed here. In this way, it operates more like a programming language and has one of the steeper learning curves. Notation is entered via text document rather than dragging notes from a graphical toolbar onto a staff. LilyPond, also free, is an interesting outlier. After polling my colleagues and various social media groups, combing forums, and filling up my devices with trial versions, I have a few findings to share about MuseScore 3, LilyPond, Sibelius, Finale, Dorico 4, Notion 6, MusicJOT 2.1, and StaffPad. Whether you’re looking to capture your musical ideas with something other than paper and pencil, need to create scores and extract parts for a class or ensemble, or you’re a professional composer with advanced engraving and typesetting concerns, an array of music notation programs and apps exists to meet your needs at various price points. And is here to support you and the string world with fantastic content (like this story!) If you like what we do, please make a donation to support our work and keep the site running.īy Laurel Thomsen | From the July-August 2022 issue of Strings magazine
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