Notation
Applications
- Finale - full featured professional notation
- Forte - basic, home and pro levels, Windows only
- LilyPond - free music engraving application
- Melody Assistant - Myriad Online, low cost and easy to use
- Sibelius - full featured professional notation
Tools
- ABC4J - Java library for ABC notation and notation display
- MaxScore - music notation addon for Max using JMSL
Markup Languages
- ABC Notation - for folk and traditional, over 298,000 free songs available
- LilyPond - markup language for high quality music engraving
- Music XML - industry standard notation interchange file format
Other Link Pages
Historic Notation Projects
- Guido - notation language
- HMSL - markup for relative intonation
- MML - Music Markup Language and Universal Synthesizer design
- SCORE by San Andreas Press - highly regarded music engraving system, still in use