A curated list of awesome tools to create, edit and display sheet music.
- capella (commercial) - Create complete scores.
- dorico (commercial) - Desktop notation software created largely by former developers of the competing product Sibelius.
- finale (commercial) - Compose, arrange, notate and print engraver-quality sheet music.
- Gsharp - Interactive extensible score editor.
- 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.
- Bach digital - Platform to browse through original sources of J. S. Bach and his sons.
- CMME - Computerized mensural music editing and database of scores.
- CPDL - The Choral Public Domain Library, an archive focused on choral and vocal music.
- Digital Mozart Edition - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's works in digital formats.
- flutetunes.com - Free sheet music for the flute.
- IMSLP - The International Music Score Library Project to share the world’s public domain music.
- Kern Scores - Library of musical scores in the Humdrum **kern data format.
- 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.
- alda - Music programming language for musicians.
- alphatab - Cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library.
- ChorData - Dummy chordbook for mandolin, ukulele and guitar.
- chordpro - Reference implementation of the ChordPro standard.
- EMViz - Visualize melodic patterns in MIDI files with arc diagrams.
- hmsl - Hierarchical Music Specification Language. Forth tools for experimental music from the 1980's
- Hum - Music notation language and synthesizer.
- lilynode - Node.js wrapper for LilyPond.
- lilyware - Node.js middleware for serving rendered LilyPond files.
- ly2video - Generating videos from LilyPond projects.
- Melo - Music notation language and compiler to MIDI.
- mscxyz - Manipulate MuseScore's XML based mscx files.
- music21 - Toolkit for computational musicology.
- musical.js - A sequencing WebAudio synthesizer that supports ABC notation.
- openLilyLib - Enhancement library for LilyPond.
- ScoreAnalyzer - Analyze piano sheet music for technical difficulties.
- verovio - An library and toolkit for engraving MEI music notation into SVG.
- zazate.js - Music theory and notation library for javascript and node.js.
- ChordPro - Simple text format for the notation of lyrics with chords.
- Clairnote - Alternative music notation to ease reading and understanding.
- flat.io (commercial) - The online music score editor for your compositions.
- flowkey (commercial) - Interactive app to learn how to play the piano.
- Fretmonster - Fingering charts app for Guitar, Ukulele, Bass, and Mandolin.
- Fretboard 1 - Chords, scales, and fingerings for string instruments.
- Fretboard 2 - Chord diagrams for Guitar.
- Guitar Dashboard - An interactive music theory dashboard for guitarists.
- hacklily - Online LilyPond based sheet music editor.
- Jellynote (commercial) - Sheet music, chords, and videos website and apps.
- lilybin - Web-based 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) - Browse and create sheet music/tab synced with audio/video performances.
- synthesiagame (commercial) - Learn how to play the piano using falling notes.
- tunefl - Freely generate and share mini LilyPond scores with ease.
- Composer's Sketchpad - Sequencer that combines musical staff paper with an artist's sketchbook (iOS only).
- Dodeka - App to learn how to play the piano.
- Dodeka Music Notation - A simple yet powerful alternative music notation.
- Karya - Music sequencer and generalized notation.
- Vnote - Experimental isomorphic musical notation.
- 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.
- llllllll.co/… - Discussion about experimental music notation resources.
- ViFaMusik - Information platform for research on music and musicology.
- W3C Music Notation Community Group - Standards group developing MusicXML, SMuFL and MNX-Common formats.
- Audiveris - Optical music recognition app for scanned scores.
- Gamera - Toolkit for building document image recognition systems.
- Rodan - Web-based document recognition system.
- 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.
- MusicScoring - Automatically generate scores for difficult pieces of music.
- Notation and Thought - Notation design and how it affects thought.