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iAnalyze is an application for musical analysis, it permits you to combine a score with an audio file to study the movements etc…. in french only !
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http://web.mac.com/pierre.couprie/Logiciels/iAnalyse.html (151 clicks)

A multitrack tablature editor and player.
- Tablature editor
- Score Viewer
- Multitrack display
- Autoscroll while playing
- Note duration management
- Various effects (bend, slide, vibrato, hammer-on/pull-off)
- Support for triplets (5,6,7,9,10,11,12)
- Repeat open and close
- Time signature management
- Tempo management
- Imports and exports gp3,gp4 and gp5 files
available for WinXP, Linux and MacOSX
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http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ (98 clicks)

Software for making educational animations from music scores.
EDiMu (Edition of Diaporamas Musical) is a software that makes it possible to create an animation from one or several images (like a music score), including a time cursor, annotations graphics and one or more soundfiles.
view an example movie to get an exact idea of what this software [...]

Señor Staff is an open-source music composition app for Mac OS X.
It features a staff-based interface (rather than a tracker interface) for natural entry and readability, and supports playback to any MIDI device.
Emphasis is placed on user efficiency and automated enforcement of musical constraints.
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http://www.gusprevas.com/senorstaff/ (209 clicks)

Songsheet Generator is a program for easily printing and displaying song sheets.
Features
Create a full-featured songbook, with a table of contents, page numbers, and song numbers.
Print one, two, or four songs per page; or continuous 1- or 2-column.
See a mini-preview of the selected song on the screen.
Choose unique font styles and colors for song elements. [...]

MIDI Builder enables the creation of 1 to 4-voice MIDI files in “step-entry” fashion.
Please note that although MIDI Builder can be used by practically anyone to create simple melodies, it will be found more useful to those who are comfortable with music notation and who can keep track of musical sequences in memory.
MIDI Builder does [...]

The Conductor Program — computer-mediated musical performance
Remember how you could record a melody in your casio and how you could play it back only with 2 fingers and with a different timing ? well, this is the basic idea of Tapper.
Give it a midi file to use as a score, select the MIDI input and [...]

this app will provide the pop and jazz improvisor with that ‘play along’ practice that is so ubiquituos; it differs from other software-based playalongs in that the user clicks on a staff to place the roots of choice. The random create part puts the app in the algorithmic composition categorie as well.
http://homepage.mac.com/ronmiller2/RonsSite/playalong.html (251 clicks)

This program is used to write out guitar tablature in the typical style of ascii tab.
It features Chords, Lead and Lyrics mode.
Perfect for those guitar tabs.
http://etktab.sourceforge.net/ (147 clicks)

Finale NotePad is the free version of the famous music notation software Finale. NotePad allows you to make simple scores, with a number of basic features borrowed from its sibling Finale. It’s also critical to compatibility, since users who don’t own Finale can open any file made with a Finale-family program in NotePad.
http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/ (168 clicks)

LilyPond is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files.
Why can’t computer printout look just as good as traditionally engraved music? With that thought in mind we have started LilyPond nine years ago. We built it to be robust, flexible, and, of course, easily [...]