

It's still available and is not as expensive as Finale and Sibelius but as those two are coming to dominate professional publishing I think SCORE's days may be numbered.
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I'm not exactly sure how it works but I think it's a text file but unlike Lilypond it requires you to know exactly how to engrave things perfectly and gives you the power to do things to exacting standards. SCORE is an almost unheard of program that is probably the most used in professional publishing houses. When you do have to tweak something it's trickier to do in Lilypond, however. It does a better job over the previous programs of getting things right the first time requiring far less tweaking than the other programs. I use Lilypond and think it's the best option for everyone, period. This produces four quarter notes going up an octave (from c to c') and then in the next bar the same notes in a whole note chord.īecause you are manipulating a text file this allows you to use good version control (like git) and gives you some programming-like abilities (or actual programming if you know scheme). Instead you enter your music in a text file which it then compiles into a pdf. Unlike the options above it does not use a graphical input method. If you must have an expensive commercial program and can manage to wait another year or so, then this is the one.

One interesting feature is that they aim to not require as much tweaking as the aforementioned programs do. They have started over completely from scratch and are doing things the right way from the beginning. It's from the former developers of Sibelius. Steinberg's upcoming offering is going to be the replacement for Finale and Sibelius. It's newer than Finale and Sibelius and probably doesn't have as many features, but it is under active development and is fairly mature. Musescore is a free and open source graphical input system. They are the most popular choices among students and professionals. They both use graphical input systems (you are putting notes on actual staves). They also require a pretty good knowledge of standard engraving practices as a lot of tweaking is required after you've entered the notes. The two big commercial engravers are Finale and Sibelius.
