srogers909 / awesome-sheet-music

A curated list of awesome sheet music software, libraries and resources.

Awesome Sheet Music

A curated list of awesome tools to create, edit and display sheet music.

Music Notation Software

• capella (commercial) - Create complete scores.
• finale (commercial) - Compose, arrange, notate and print engraver-quality sheet music.
• lilypond - Program and file format for music engraving.
• musescore - Create, play and print sheet music.
• opusmodus (commercial) - Software for music composition.
• sibelius (commercial) - Create and share scores.

Archives

• flutetunes.com - Free sheet music for the flute.
• imslp.org - Sharing the world’s public domain music.
• Lilypond-Sheet-Music - Cello music typeset with LilyPond.
• musescore - Share your sheet music and comment on others.
• mutopia - Sheet music editions of classical music for free. Repository available at github.com mutopia.
• openbook - Open LilyPond real book for jazz musicians.

Software Libraries

• alphatab - Cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library.
• ChorData - Dummy chordbook for mandolin, ukulele and guitar.
• lilynode - Node.js wrapper for lilypond.
• lilyware - Node.js middleware for serving rendered lilypond files.
• ly2video - Generating videos from LilyPond projects.
• music21 - Toolkit for computational musicology.
• musical.js - A sequencing WebAudio synthesizer that supports ABC notation.
• verovio - An library and toolkit for engraving MEI music notation into SVG.
• zazate.js - Music theory and notation library for javascript and node.js.

Websites

• chromatik (commercial) - Play along to sheet music of previously unreleased tunes.
• flat.io - The online music score editor for your compositions.
• getinstinct - Guitar lessons that listen as you play along.
• lilybin - Web-based LilyPond editor and [github] project.
• my.vexflow - Publish content with music notation, guitar tablature and chord diagrams without the need for special tools.
• noteflight (commercial) - Browser based music notation creator and music composition community.
• playgroundsessions (commercial) - Learn how to play the piano with interactive lessons featuring your favorite songs.
• soundslice (commercial) - Learn music better with interactive notation and tabs.
• synthesiagame (commercial) - Learn how to play the piano using falling notes.
• tunefl - Freely generate and share mini lilypond scores with ease.
• utab - Synced Chords & Lyrics created by professional musicians.

Resources

• freemusiced - Fingering charts, scale sheets, free sheet music and links to resources on the internet.
• List of Online Digital Musical Document Libraries - Wikipedia list of online archives.

OMR (Optical Music Recognition)

• Audiveris - Optical Music Recognition software which processes the image of a music sheet to automatically provide symbolic music information in MusicXML.
• Rodan - Web-based document recognition system.

Research

• Distributed digital music archives and libraries lab - Development and evaluation of practices, frameworks and tools for the design and construction of worldwide distributed digital music archives and libraries.