Project Summary
Create, play back, and print sheet music for free. MuseScore is cross-platform, multi-lingual, open source music notation software. It features an easy to use WYSIWYG editor with audio score playback for results that look and sound beautiful. It supports unlimited staves with up to four voices each, dynamics, articulations, lyrics, chords, lead sheet notation, import/export of MIDI and MusicXML, export to PDF and WAV, plus online score sharing.
In a Nutshell, MuseScore...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 2,147 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in May, 2012
ending with its most recent commit 2 days ago
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Project Security
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