MuseScore Studio (branded as MuseScore before 2024) is a

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music notation program for

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, and

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under the

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, which owns the associated online score-sharing platform MuseScore.com and a

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mobile score viewer and playback app.

History

MuseScore was created as a

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of the

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sequencer's

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. In 2002, Werner Schweer, one of the MusE developers, decided to remove notation support from MusE and create a stand-alone notation program from the codebase. The MuseScore.org website was created in 2008, and quickly showed a rapidly rising number of MuseScore

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s. By December 2008, the download rate had reached 15,000 per month. Version 0.9.5 was released in August 2009. By October 2009, MuseScore was being downloaded more than 1000 times per day. By the fourth quarter of 2010, it was being downloaded 80,000 times per month. At the end of 2013, the project moved from SourceForge to GitHub. Continuous download statistics have not been publicly available since then. However, a March 2015 press release stated that MuseScore had been downloaded over eight million times; and in December 2016 the project stated that version 2.0.3 had been downloaded 1.9 million times in the nine months since its release. The MuseScore company uses income from their commercial sheet music-sharing service to support the free notation software's development. In 2017, the MuseScore company was acquired by

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, which added full-time paid developers to the open source team. In 2021, the MuseScore company, Ultimate Guitar, and other properties (including Audacity) were put under a new parent company,

, in

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, Cyprus. In 2022, the MuseScore company finished relocating to Muse Group's Cyprus headquarters. In January 2024, the music notation app formerly known as MuseScore was rebranded MuseScore Studio.

Features

MuseScore Studio's main purpose is the creation of high-quality

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musical scores in a "What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get" environment. It supports unlimited staves, linked parts and part extraction,

tablature Tablature (or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches. Tablature is common for fretted stringed instruments such as the guitar, lute or vihuel ...

MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface (; MIDI) is an American-Japanese technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, ...

input and output,

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, cross-staff beaming, automatic transposition, lyrics (multiple verses),

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diagrams, and in general everything commonly used in

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. Style options to change the appearance and layout are available, and style sheets can be saved and applied to other scores. There are pre-defined templates for many types of ensembles. Functionality can be extended by making use of the many freely available plugins. MuseScore Studio can also play back scores through the built-in sequencer and

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sample library. Multiple SoundFonts can be loaded into MuseScore Studio's synthesizer. It includes a mixer to mute, solo, or adjust the volume of individual parts, and

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and other effects are supported during playback. MIDI output to external devices and software synthesizers is also possible.

Supported file formats

MuseScore Studio can import and export to many formats, though some are export-only (visual representations and audio) and some are import-only (native files from some other music notation programs). MuseScore Studio's native file formats are .mscx, which is

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data containing the score; and .mscz, a zip archive containing the .mscx and other data. The .mscz format is the default format, as it occupies less space and supports additional data, such as images. MuseScore Studio also can import and export compressed (.mxl) and uncompressed (.xml) MusicXML files, which allows a score to be edited in other music notation programs (including

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and Finale). The latest edition of MuseScore Studio uses MusicXML 4.0. It can also import and export

(.mid, .midi, and .kar), which is supported by many other programs (such as

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), although since MIDI is not designed for sheet music, some information may be lost. MuseScore Studio can also import certain other music software's native formats, including Band-in-a-Box (.mgu and .sgu), Bagpipe Music Writer (.bww),

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(.gtp, .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, and .gpx),

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(must be version 2000 (3.0) or later; .cap and .capx) and

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formats. It can also import MuseData (.md), which has been superseded by

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. Audio can be exported to

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and

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files; and graphical representations of scores can be exported to

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, SVG and PNG formats, as well as printed.

Mobile player

Since May 2014 MuseScore has mobile apps available for

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, Android and

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which tie into the MuseScore score-sharing site. The app can play scores, and allows transposition and part extraction, but does not create or edit scores.

Portable application

MuseScore Studio also runs as a

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. It can be installed onto a regular

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or stored on a removable storage device such as a CD,

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or flash card, so that it can be run on any compatible Windows computer system.

Custom fonts

A new notation font, ''Leland'', created by Martin Keary and Simon Smith, was introduced in MuseScore 3.6. Its name is a reference to Leland Smith, the creator of ''

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,'' a notation program formerly used by many publishers. The update also introduced a new text font, ''Edwin'', influenced by the classic '' New Century Schoolbook'' typeface.

VST support

In Musescore 4.0, support was added for

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instrument and effects plugins on Windows and macOS. The

also released a free orchestral plugin, ''MuseSounds,'' designed to provide more realistic playback.

Versions

Development

MuseScore Studio is free and open-source software and is written mainly in C++, with the

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making use of the cross-platform Qt toolkit. Originally founded by Werner Schweer, Nicolas Froment and Thomas Bonte, the project is now headed by Martin Keary (Head of Software) and Vasily Pereverzev (Lead Developer) with a wider community also contributing.

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has sponsored students to help develop MuseScore in 2013, 2014 and 2016 to 2021. MuseScore Studio's development takes place on

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. Contributing code to MuseScore Studio requires that contributors sign an online

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Reception

MuseScore has accumulated generally favorable reviews since its release from critics, scholars, and educators, who praise its relative ease of use and free availability. Online computer magazine ''

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'' gave a rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars to ''MuseScore 1.3''. It praised the precise control over the size and spacing of every object, and the abilities to define keyboard shortcuts and drag and drop modifiers, but criticized its mouse methodology as occasionally unintuitive for not fully exploring the potential of

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menus. Technology news website ''

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'' rated it 4.5 out of 5 stars, calling it "well-organized" and "comprehensive". It was lauded for its customizability, the ability to upload user sheet music, and import support for many different file formats. In its review of the ''3.3'' release, ''

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'' gave MuseScore 4.5-stars out of 5, praising its ability to create tablature and percussion sheet music alongside traditional notation, its support for hundreds of instruments, and the abilities it gave users to share music and interact with other users online. Reviewing ''MuseScore 4.0'', British magazine ''

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'' welcomed the version's improved engraving, new cloud storage, and focus on accessibility, such as allowing users to export their compositions in braille, an expanded colour scheme, and keyboard navigation. It also noted its support for VSTs, including the application's own ''MuseSounds'', which the magazine considered a boon to teachers seeking easier ways to export their scores to audio.

Adoption

MuseScore reported over 7,000 downloads per day in 2016. Many Linux distributions also include MuseScore in their software libraries, such as in the

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. , MuseScore had been downloaded 12.1 million times. Many educational institutions use MuseScore, including

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and the

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. The Board of Education of La Seigneurie des Milles-îles in Canada has made it available on 10,000 computers in schools across the Milles-îles region of

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Crowd-sourced engraving projects

Open Goldberg Variations

In 2011, MuseScore launched a

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campaign to create high-quality, freely available digital score and audio versions of the ''

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''. The process influenced the development of MuseScore 2, with notation improvements needed in order to create a high-quality engraving of the variations. With the fundraising goal met, MuseScore developers, pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, and crowd-sourced reviewers collaborated to create an

score and also record a new album, both of which were released under a

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license (without copyright), meaning they can be downloaded and shared freely. In 2012, at the end of the online public review process, the final engraved score was released for free on ''MuseScore.com'', and printed and bound by GRIN in Germany. Kimiko Ishizaka's recording was released for free on BandCamp.

Open Well-Tempered Clavier

In 2013, a second successful Kickstarter funded the creation of a new edition of Bach's ''

Well-Tempered Clavier ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time ''clavier'' referred to a variety of keyboard instruments, ...

''. Once again, the score underwent public review on ''MuseScore.com'', and was recorded by Kimiko Ishizaka, with both score and recordings released into the

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in 2015.

Braille editions

After hearing from a blind musician who contributed to the Open WTC Kickstarter, MuseScore set up new stretch funding goals to support making

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more accessible to blind and visually impaired musicians. Though the top goal of automatically converting all scores in the ''MuseScore.com'' library to

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was not funded, they did get funding to create braille sheet music for both the ''Goldberg Variations'' and the ''Well-Tempered Clavier''. The digital files (for braille terminals & printers) are available for free download, like the standard scores.

OpenScore

In 2017, MuseScore and the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) launched a Kickstarter for OpenScore, an initiative to create MuseScore and MusicXML versions of public domain music from IMSLP's library. , a number of scores had been completed, including

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Iphigénie en Aulide ''Iphigénie en Aulide'' (''Iphigeneia in Aulis (ancient Greece), Aulis'') is an opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the first work he wrote for the Paris stage. The libretto was written by François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet ...

Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular ...

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and around 900 songs in the OpenScore Lieder Corpus. There are several ongoing OpenScore projects which provide Public Domain scores: * OpenScore – main transcription group * OpenScore Lieder Corpus – French, German and English song cycles (over 1,300 songs as at 2024) * OpenScore String Quartets – full score and parts for string quartets (over 100 quartets as at 2024) * OpenScore Braille – MusicXML score exports for conversion to Braille

''MuseScore.com'' (Online score sharing)

The ''Save Online'' feature of the MuseScore application allows users to publish and share their music online through ''MuseScore.com''. Initially, ''MuseScore.com'' allowed free downloads of scores, free uploads of up to 5 scores, and unlimited uploads for paid accounts. Starting in 2015 with ''MuseScore 2.0'', its ''Start Center'' displays featured scores from the website. This feature is no longer present in ''MuseScore 4.0''.

Copyright issues

Starting in June 2019, a number of users who uploaded

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songs were "copyright struck" by Disney. Publisher

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was taking down original music, or arrangements of music that was in the public domain, based on song titles. MuseScore.com has since obtained permission to publicly display Disney music on the site, unblocking previously uploaded scores. In July 2019, following complaints from some copyright holders, MuseScore.com changed its policies so that only paying subscribers could download music sheets. Since MuseScore.com did not have a "trustworthy tool to distinguish songs under copyright from songs available for distribution", this applied to all scores, even those intended for liberal sharing via a

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. In August and September 2019, features were added to allow works to be marked as

or original, so they could be made available for free download. On 19 February 2020, MuseScore.com announced that everyone could now upload an unlimited number of scores, even without subscribing. Subscribers still have access to special features such as Track setup and downloads. MuseScore.com allows playback of a score in any browser supporting the

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audio tag. A score can also be linked to

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so that one may follow the sheet music while watching a video of hearing audio featuring the score. In September 2021, MuseScore.com launched Official Scores, scores licensed from sheet music publishers, available with an additional subscription.

Usage statistics

, the website hosts 1.3 million scores and averages 300,000 visitors per day. For the year 2023, they claimed at least 450 million score views, 56 million visitors, and 1.35 million added scores.

Notes

:1.39 languages are translated over 50%, 69 languages in total

References

External links

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