Awesome Music

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

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Thanks to all contributors, you're awesome and wouldn't be possible without you!

Audio Editing

audio.js - audio.js is a drop-in javascript library that allows HTML5's <audio> tag to be used anywhere.
howler.js - A Javascript audio library for the modern web.
JSyn - An audio synthesis software API for Java.
Librosa - A python package for music and audio analysis, providing the building blocks necessary to create music information retrieval systems.
midi.js - A framework for creating web-based MIDI apps.
PortAudio - A free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library.
RustAudio - An aggregate of free and useful Audio, DSP and music libraries written in Rust.
Soundpipe - A lightweight DSP library written in C.

Beets - A powerful command-line music organizer and manipulator.
Koel - An open-source personal audio streaming server.
Lame - A high quality, free and open-source MP3 encoder.
lltag - Automatic command-line mp3/ogg/flac file tagger and renamer.
Musikernel - A futuristic audio production platform (hardware support, APIs, hosts, plugins and more)
SoX - A free open-source command line utility for playing, converting and manipulating audio files.

Ciconia's music - A collection of mostly baroque music, lots of sacred works by J. S. Bach, coded in lilypond/ripple.
CPDL - The choral public domain library contains more than 20K free scores of vocal music.
Éditions Nicolas Sceaux - Baroque music scores (mainly French music), typeset using lilypond.
IMSLP - The International Music Score Library Project is the largest collection of public domain scores and parts on the web.
Mutopia - Sheet music based on editions in the public domain.

Timidity - TiMidity++ is an open-source command line synthesizer that plays MIDI files.

Abjad - a Python API for Formalized Score Control, based on Lilypond.
Denemo - A free music notation editor based on Lilypond.
Frescobaldi - A free Lilypond sheet music editor.
Inknote - Free, open source, browser based music notation and composition software
LibMEI - LibMEI is a C++ library for reading and writing MEI files.
Lilypond - Free, open-source music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible.
Lilybin - An open sourcle web-based lilypond editor.
Lilyvm - Lilypond version manager.
Lydown - A modern language for music notation, based on Lilypond.
Lyp - The lilypond package manager - install packages and manage multiple versions of lilypond.
MuseScore - Free open-source music notation and composition software.
OpenLilyLib - LilyPond tools - snippets, templates, and extensions.
Python-ly - Tool and library for manipulating LilyPond files.
Ripple - DRY for Lilypond - generate scores and parts with minimal fuss.
Verovio - A library and a toolkit for engraving MEI music notation into SVG.
Vexflow - A JavaScript library for rendering music notation and guitar tablature.

Alda - A music programming language for musicians.
Chuck - Strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language.
CoffeeCollider - A language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition in HTML5. "Write CoffeeScript, and be processed as SuperCollider."
Common Music - An open source music composition system.
Csound - A user-programmable and user-extensible sound processing language and software synthesizer.
IanniX - A graphical open-source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art.
Leipzig - A composition library for Overtone.
Music Suite - A language for generalized music notation and theory, based on Haskell.
Nyquist - A sound synthesis and composition language.
Overtone - Overtone is an Open Source toolkit for designing synthesizers and collaborating with music.
Platonic Music Engine - An open-source music generation framework written in Lua.
Serpent - A real-time language for music and animation.
Sporth - A small stack based audio language.
SuperCollider - SuperCollider is a programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.

OpenMusicTheory - A growing, online "textbook" for music theory and aural skills.

MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) - An open-source effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure.
MusicXML - The standard open format for exchanging digital sheet music.
SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout) - A specification for mapping music symbols to Unicode for use in music fonts.

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