NoteWorthy Composer (NWC) is a proprietary

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application made by NoteWorthy Software. It is a graphical score editor for Microsoft Windows computers (from

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), and also works on PCs under

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with

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. Version 1 of NWC was released in October 1994, and Version 2 in September 2008.NoteWorthy Composer - History
/ref> NWC is intended for the creation of

sheet music Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece. Like its analogs – printed books or pamphlets in English, A ...

, but it can also import and export

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and Karaoke files and can export graphical WMFs. The

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works either from the keyboard or the mouse. Visual results are immediate, and audible results can be heard at any time. Notes can also be entered by playing on a MIDI device, when configured. In version 2, the notes can be heard as they are entered. Lyrics are entered as a single block of text which automatically positions itself on notes according to syllabic and slur rules, as opposed to being entered per-note as is standard for Sibelius, Finale, or MuseScore. The binary NWC

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is undocumented and facilities to convert it into more popular formats are less limited. There are, however, a couple of open source libraries that can parse and convert this file format. Version 2 of NWC introduced a textual representation of the file format called NWCTXT. This allowed easier conversion to many other formats, including

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. A feature of the user interface is that notation is displayed during editing. Each staff proceeds linearly from left to right, without being wrapped to the screen, like the galley view in other software. Staff systems are visually broken to fit margins during page layout, allowing many possibilities at "print time", when parts and scores can be laid out. On older hardware, this presents performance advantages over the

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behavior of other editors because it minimizes the necessary rendering of particularly large scores. Print preview is available for adjustments to page layout since version 2.51. The program lacks the more advanced engraving, graphic sophistication, playback and publishing capabilities of more expensive scriptwriting software such as

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or Finale. A free viewer is available. The otherwise fully functional demo version imposes a limit of 10 saves per file name, adds a small footer to each printed page, and prints a registration form with each printed score. Besides the demo program, a downloadable plug-in for

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allows Winamp to play files from NWC. Because of the availability of a free viewer, Noteworthy has been adopted as the standard score distribution format by the large

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database,

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. An "unofficial" catalog of compositions and helpful files contributed by users is available from the NoteWorthy Scriptorium.NoteWorthy Scriptorium
/ref> There have been no new software releases or updates for NoteWorthy Composer since 2017, nor updates on the official NoteWorthy Composer blog since 2015. Th
Noteworthy Composer Forum
continues to be active (July 2022).

References

"Klucz do czarnej magii / NoteWorthy Composer. Komputerowy papier nutowy"
Gazeta
"Noteworthy Composer 1.70"

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Belgium
"Over to you: online music manuscripts, hearing aids and databases"
'' Daily Telegraph'', 16 January 2003
"Over to you: garden design"
'' Daily Telegraph'', 22 September 2004
"Prodigy gets noticed"
'' International Herald Tribune'', 13 July 2008
"Be composed"
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'', 4 April 2003
"Ziff-Davis Announces Winners of Its 1995 Shareware Awards Competition"

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, 26 June 1996

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NoteWorthy Scriptorium
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