MuseScore teaser
MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licenced under GNU GPL.
Some highlights: 
- WYSIWYG, notes are entered on a "virtual note sheet"
- Unlimited number of staves
- Up to four voices per staff
- Easy and fast note entry with mouse, keyboard or MIDI
- Integrated sequencer and FluidSynth software synthesizer
- Import and export of MusicXML and Standard MIDI Files (SMF)
- Platform independent code, binaries available for Windows, Mac and Linux
- Available in 20 languages
- GNU GPL licenced
MuseScore meetup in Brussels at Fosdem
FOSDEM is a yearly event for open source users and developers. It's taking place this weekend in Brussels. So the ideal opportunity to meet up with each other. Update: 17:30-18:00 sessionRead more
MuseScore tutorial videos
Just thought I'd let you know that I've created a couple of brief tutorial videos for MuseScore. They are part of a series titled Musescore in 10 easy steps and they'll cover the basics of score setup, the MuseScore screen, note entry etc. I'll be creating the remaining videos in the series in the near future as soon as I find the time! Subscribe on my blog, YouTube or Vimeo to get informed. Read more
Thank you for your donations
MuseScore.org started as a very basic community website a little more than one year ago. Today it's the home of the rapidly growing MuseScore user and developer community, attracting around 2000 unique visitors per day and serving around 300.000 pageviews on monthly basis. Needless to say this is quite a success, even more when considering this is all accomplished by volunteer work. This success comes however with a price tag, because musescore.org quickly outgrew its simple hosting facility. Thankfully, we have received many donations which make it possible to keep musescore.org up and running on better hardware. So thank you all for your donations!Read more
Configure MuseScore and Jack for playback to a MIDI keyboard
Ever wondered how to playback your MuseScore score on your keyboard? Now you can with Jack and the latest MuseScore 0.9.6 prerelease for Windows. In this post, you will find the instructions how to configure Jack and MuseScore. I believe MuseScore is one of the first applications to support Jack on Windows so be aware this is still experimental.Read more
Presenting the new MuseScore wordmark
A question often asked is when MuseScore will be ready for a 1.0 release. While it's hard if not impossible for a young open source project such as MuseScore to set deadlines, the answer so far was that MuseScore needs to complete a couple of things first. One of these things was the ability to run MuseScore on Mac which became possible this past summer, another one was to create a house style and artwork for MuseScore. Today, the very first step of the MuseScore redesign will be presented: the new MuseScore wordmark.Read more
Announcing ABC import plugin for MuseScore 0.9.5
A plugin to import ABC (v1.6) into MuseScore 0.9.5 is now available in the source code repository.Read more
Installation instruction
- Download the plugin by right clicking this link and save target as.
- Save the file in the plugins directory of MuseScore. On Windows it's c:\Program Files\MuseScore\plugins
- if you don't run Windows or if you didn't install MuseScore in the default location, edit the plugin file and change the "program" variable to the path to MuseScore executable.
- Restart or start MuseScore
MuseScore for Mac is out of beta
MuseScore for Mac OS X is out of beta since the release of MuseScore 0.9.5 on the August 15th 2009. The feature list for Mac OS X is the exactly same as for Windows and includes Midi input, output to wav, flac, ogg and more. Download link: http://www.musescore.org/download/musescore.dmg
MuseScore is available for PPC & Intel as an Universal Binaries package. It has been tested successfully on MacOSX 10.4 and 10.5. In case you successfully tested MuseScore on Snow Leopard, don't hesitate to leave a comment.
For developers, instructions for building MuseScore on Mac are available.Read more
New features in MuseScore 0.9.5
- With the release of MuseScore 0.9.5 comes the first stable release for Mac OS X 10.4 and above
- Create sound files of your scores via File → Save As... (WAV, OGG, and FLAC)
- Use and create plugins
- Know the pitch range of instruments (MuseScore marks out-of-range notes for amateurs in yellow and professionals in red)

- Double-click to open a MuseScore file

- Over 30 crashes fixed