Canorus – music score editor

Canorus is a graphical music score editor written for the Qt toolkit.

It is a sequel of the well-known music score editor for Linux, NoteEdit. Canorus uses LilyPond for music engraving to achieve a very high quality in the resulting documents. This software supports note writing, scripting support, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output and more.

Canorus offers a number of import and export filters for LilyPond, MusicXML, Midi, NoteEdit and others.

Features include:

• Modern and flexible Qt4-based graphical user interface with vector graphics for music elements, multiple viewports on a single score.
• Multiple voices – Polyphony and unlimited number of contexts.
• Multiple viewports on the same music score.
• MIDI playback.
• Transposition.
• Lyrics.
• Scalable icons and other graphics.
• Multiple views of the score.
• Write the score using mouse and keyboard on one or more sheets as composers do and use copy&paste functionality then.
• Type the score in LilyPond syntax using the Score Source View.
• Unlimited undo/redo.
• Score elements:
  • Notes, rests, various barlines.
  • Various key signatures, time signatures and clefs.
  • Triplets and other tuplets.
  • Ties, slurs and phrasing slurs.
  • Tempo marks (BPM), ritardando, accellerando.
  • Fixed dynamic marks (piano, forte etc.), crescendo, decrescendo.
  • Repeat signs (repeat bars, segno, coda).
  • Bookmarks, custom text signs, rehersal marks.
  • Pedal marks.
  • Instrument change.
  • Fingering.
  • Articulation marks (marcato, accent, tenuto, bow marks, trills, pralls etc).
  • Lyrics.
  • Figured bass.
  • Function marks.
  • Transposition and accidentals reinterpretation.
• Preview and printing achieved externally by exporting the score to LilyPond and running a PDF viewer application.
• Playback of the score.
• Live recording of Midi performance.
• Insertion of notes and rests using Midi keyboard.
• Uses native tar-gzipped XML file format.
• Supports various resources you can add to score like images, sounds, videos and others stored inside the score.
• Export to LilyPond, Midi, PDF.
• Import from LilyPond (incomplete), Midi and MusicXML.
• Plugins.
• Internationalization support: 12 languages.

Website: sourceforge.net/projects/canorus
Support:
Developer: Canorus Development Team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Canorus is written in Python, C++, and Ruby. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Ruby with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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