Looking for a free software to edit sheet music (solfic writing)

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shokin
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Hello,

I am a new user of Trisquel 6.0 (on a laptop).

I am looking for a free software (meaning of Richard Stallman and Free Software Foundation) in order to :

- create music sheet, that I can print (A4 format), save, modify and share, (one sheet for several music instruments)
- eventually read the sheet (we can "hear the sheet", choose the instrument).

Thank you in advance.

Khany

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Try MuseScore:
http://musescore.org/
Is in Trisquel repos, but if you want the latest version add this ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~mscore-ubuntu/+archive/mscore-stable

PS. http://musescore.com/nicolas/free-software-song

shokin
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Hello, Khany,

Thank you for the answer ! this free software seems to be very good !

P.S. : I didn't know this librist song.

AndrewT

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Two other options are GNU Denemo and Rosegarden.

Denemo is good if you don't mind fewer features, the lack of true "WYSIWYG", or you want a lightweight app (or a GNU app), but Rosegarden, as a score editor, actually surpasses MuseScore in one way: it quantizes your MIDI keyboard input on the fly and maps that to notation, in time. You have to play very accurately for this to be reliable, however.

shokin
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Thank you for your answers. I'll try these three free softwares.

Mampir
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There's also GNU LilyPond. With it you write scores in plain text files and make sheets and audio files from them.

AndrewT

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I highly doubt he intended to work that way, though. Editing a text file to make a score can't be fun ... and it must have a big learning curve!

Denemo is, in fact, a graphical front-end to LilyPond.

Mampir
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I used to write sheets with LilyPond and find it fun.