• Amadeus. Jerker Elsgard (Jerker.Elsgard@abc.se) writes: professional and expensive (DM 4000, --) engraving. Designed as a batch program (like LilyPond). It is aimed at publishers. Its history is more than fifteen years and Amadeus has been running under different Unix clones. It uses MIDI-keyboard input.

  • Bladmuziek. proprietary W32 package in dutch.

  • Donald Byrd. Nightingale.

  • Chris Cannam. Rosegarden. A Notation editor/Sequencer for X. Also outputs musictex.

  • William F. Clocksin. Calliope. A NeXT package. Requires the Adobe Sonata font.

  • Etienne Darbellay. Wolfgang.

  • Andreas Egler. Opustex. Andreas Egler's branch of MusiXTeX is now called OpusTeX.

  • emagic notator. A notation product from a company that now focuses on sequencing.

  • Encore.

  • Miguel Filgueiras. Scex. A preprocessor to MusixTeX. Source in prolog available on request. (?).

  • Finale.

  • Eric Foxley. Music. A TROFF preprocessor.

  • John S. Gourlay et al. Musicopy. A project at Ohio State university, which was discontinued in 1987. The technical reports that have resulted from MusiCopy can still be obtained by writing to OSU department of Computer Science.

  • Graphire music press.

  • Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein. Lime. Notation editor for W95 and Mac.

  • Thomas Hall. A-r music engraving. Professional engraving on Sun boxen.

  • Holger H. Hoos and Thomas Helbich. The salieri project. `The SALIERI System is an interactive software environment for structure oriented composition, manipulation and analysis of music.'

  • Paul Hudak. Haskore. A programming system for music, based on Haskell, a functional programming language. It outputs MIDI, CSound, NeXTStep and MusicKit.

  • Cleo Huggins. Sonata. The music font by Adobe.

  • Igor. Vaporware from Sweden.

  • Dirk Laurie. M-tx. A Predecessor of PMX.

  • Garrick Meeker. Vivace. A amateurish notation program for TclTk and X.

  • Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler. Musixtex. A rewrite of MusicTeX. After licensing quarrels, MusiXTeX has been split into two (both still non-GNU GPL licensed) branches.

  • Dominique Montel. Berlioz. Dominique Montel (a professional engraver) is now working together with computer scientists on his own software for music publishing called "Berlioz". It is proprietary and runs on W95/NT and Mac.

  • Mup. A program which creates PS from a script input. Although it comes with C source code, it is shareware.

  • proprietary w32 package in dutch.

  • Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen. Lilypond. The GNU Project music typesetter. Designed as a batch program, outputs to plain TeX . Added for completeness. You are currently reading her documentation.

  • Jan Nieuwenhuizen and Han-Wen Nienhuys. mpp. A preprocessor to MusixTeX. It is outdated by its successor, LilyPond. MPP is still available via the CTAN archive.

  • Noteworthy. Shareware.

  • Gary M. Rader. Musicease. Described in Computer vol 29(6). Shareware.

  • ``edv-notensatz''. URW's music-engraving system described by [Wanske]. (Although URW used ~DM 1.000.000 while developing this, it didn't buy them a cute name),.

  • Angelika Schofer and Andrea Steinbach. A TeX macro package for typesetting single-staff music. With some fonts. Juicy detail: It comes without license statement and both authors and copyright holders have vanished from the face of the electronic earth, yet it is the predecessor to MusicTeX.

  • Bill Schottstaedt. Common notation. A versatile lisp package. Part of the Common Music system. Input is in Lisp.

  • Scribe. A formatter for medieval scores.

  • Sibelius. Notation editor on Acorn machines. Their developers call it ``best notation program available''. In any case, they are good at bragging.

  • Don Simons. Pmx. A Preprocessor for MusiXTeX. Developed for DOS, written in FORTRAN. UNIX/C translation available.

  • Leland Smith. Score. Werner Lemberg (sx0005@sx2.hrz.uni-dortmund.de) writes: I consider SCORE as the best program for typesetting classical music. [..] the price is quite high (about US$ 1000) [..] It has a graphical interface but to get all out of the program you have to learn a 400 page manual almost by heart because you'll change most features by inputting parameters (up to 20 for some items) on a command line. Expect three months to master SCORE :-).

  • Songworks.

  • Daniel Taupin. Musictex. MusicTeX is a macro package for TeX to typeset polyphonic or instrumental music. It was originally written by Daniel Taupin. It includes a full-featured (but slightly unsightly) set of fonts.

  • Daniel Taupin. Musixtex. Daniel Taupin now maintains the branch that still carries the name MusiXTeX.

  • Chris Walshaw. Abc2mtex. A preprocessor to MusixTeX for transcribing folk and traditional music.

  • David Webber. Mozart. A shareware windows package.