This is a list of notable scorewriter software for creating and editing tablature notation for

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and other

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ted instruments. *

Finale Finale may refer to: Pieces of music * Finale (music), the last movement of a piece * ''Finale'' (album), a 1977 album by Loggins and Messina * "Finale B", a 1996 song from the rock opera ''Rent'' * "Finale", a song by Anthrax from ''State of Eu ...

* G7, part of Sibelius * Guitar Pro *

LilyPond LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand. LilyPond is cross-pl ...

* MagicScore/Maestro *

Mozart the music processor Mozart the music processor is a proprietary WYSIWYG scorewriter program for Microsoft Windows. It is used to create and edit Western musical notation to create and print sheet music, and to play it via MIDI. The program was named after the co ...

* MuseScore * MusicEase *

MusEdit MusEdit is a scorewriter program for Microsoft Windows, developed by Doug Rogers / Yowza software and first launched in 1997. The current version (4.0.3) was released in 2010. In February 2011, the author told the ''MusEdit'' Yahoo group that ...

Notion Notion or Notions may refer to: Software * Notion (music software), a music composition and performance program * Notion (productivity software), a note-taking and project-management program from Notion Labs Inc. * Notion (window manager), the s ...

and Progression, a smaller version of Notion, specially for guitar * Power Tab Editor *

TuxGuitar TuxGuitar is a free and open-source tablature editor, which includes features such as tablature editing, score editing, and import and export of Guitar Pro gp3, gp4, and gp5 files. In addition, TuxGuitar's tablature and staff interfaces function a ...

History

The first tablature program was written for the Amstrad CPC 464 in 1986. "Tab Composer CPC" was implemented in Locomotive BASIC 1.0. It offered a multi-page graphical

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, 3channel polyphonic playback and volume and tone

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functionality, as well as save and load. BASIC programs could be generated for direct playback without the program as well, facilitating easy integration of the created musical content into other programs such as games. The user interface was in German only. An attempt was made to publish the program as a type-in listing in the German ' magazine. The program was rejected mainly due to poor (handwritten) documentation, and a tedious user interface. The author is still in possession of the original correspondence with the ''Happy Computer'' editorial staff, including the letter of rejection.

External links

* {{YouTube, F6k4eq10DJg, time=536s, Demo of "Tab Composer CPC" Guitar tablature software

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