- WYSIWYG design, notes are entered on a "virtual notepaper"
- TrueType font(s) for printing & display allows for high quality scaling to all sizes
- easy & fast note entry
- many editing functions
- MusicXML import/export
- Midi (SMF) import/export
- MuseData import
- Midi input for note entry
- integrated sequencer and software synthesizer to play the score
- print or create pdf files
MuseScore is licensed under GPL version 2.0. See LICENSE.GPL in the same directory.
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aeolus Clone of Aeolus Disabled by default in the stable releases. See https://dev-list.musescore.org/Aeolus-Organ-Synth-td7578364.html Kept as an example of how to integrate with a complex synthesizer.
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assets Graphical assets, use them if you need a MuseScore icon. For logo, color etc... see https://musescore.org/en/about/logos-and-graphics
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awl Audio Widget Library, from the MusE project
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build Utility files for build
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bww2mxml Command line tool to convert BWW files to MusicXML. BWW parser is used by MuseScore to import BWW files.
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demos A few MuseScore files to demonstrate what can be done
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fluid Clone of FluidSynth, ported to C++ and customized
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fonts Contains fontforge source (sfd) + ttf/otf fonts. MuseScore includes the "Emmentaler" font from the Lilypond project.
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libmscore Data model of MuseScore
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mscore Main code for the MuseScore UI
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mstyle Clone of KDE4 style Oxygen
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msynth Abstract interface to Fluid + Aeolus
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mtest Unit testing using QTest
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omr Optical music recognition
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share Files moved to /usr/share/... on install
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test Old tests. Should move to mtest
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vtest Visual tests. Compare reference images with current implementation
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thirdparty Contains projects which are included for convenience, usually to integrate them into the build system to make them available for all supported platforms.
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thirdparty/rtf2html Used for capella import
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thirdparty/diff Not used currently. Diff, Match and Patch Library
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thirdparty/ofqf OSC server interface. Based on OSC for Qt4
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thirdparty/singleapp Clone from Qt Single Application
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thirdparty/portmidi Clone from PortMidi
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thirdparty/beatroot It's a core part of BeatRoot Vamp Plugin by Simon Dixon and Chris Cannam, used in MIDI import for beat detection. (https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/beatroot-vamp/repository)
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Read the developer handbook for a complete build walkthrough and a list of dependencies.
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unpack source distribution
tar xvofj mscore-x.x.x.tar.bz2 -
make
cd mscore-x.x.x make release
if something goes wrong, then remove the whole build subdirectory with make clean and start new with make release
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install as root user
sudo make install
To generate the program documentation with DoxyGen, type
cd build
make doxy
Browse the documentation with your favourite html browser at build/Doc/html/index.html
cd build.release/mscore
./mscore
to start MuseScore. On first invocation a demofile is shown. You probably want to change that in the "Preferences" dialog.
A debug version can be built by doing make debug above, instead of make release.
To test the debug version, type
cd build.debug/mscore
./mscore