There are pre-defined templates for many types of ensembles. Style options to change the appearance and layout are available, and style sheets can be saved and applied to other scores. It supports unlimited staves, linked parts and part extraction, tablature, MIDI input and output, percussion notation, cross-staff beaming, automatic transposition, lyrics (multiple verses), fretboard diagrams, and in general everything commonly used in sheet music. MuseScore's main purpose is the creation of high-quality engraved musical scores in a "What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get" environment. In April 2021, it was announced that a parent company, Muse Group, would be formed to support MuseScore, Ultimate Guitar, and other acquired properties (including Audacity). In 2018, the MuseScore company was acquired by Ultimate Guitar, which added full-time paid developers to the open source team.
The MuseScore company uses income from their commercial sheet music sharing service to support the development of the free notation software.
Īt the end of 2013, the project moved from SourceForge to GitHub, and continuous download statistics have not been publicly available since then, but in March 2015 a press release stated that MuseScore had been downloaded over eight million times, and in December 2016 the project stated that version 2.0.3 had been downloaded 1.9 million times in the nine months since its release. By the fourth quarter of 2010, MuseScore was being downloaded 80,000 times per month. By October 2009, MuseScore had been downloaded more than one thousand times per day. Version 0.9.5 was released in August 2009. By December 2008, the download rate was up to 15,000 per month. The website was created in 2008, and quickly showed a rapidly rising number of MuseScore downloads.
At that time, MusE included notation capabilities and in 2002, Werner Schweer, one of the MusE developers, decided to remove notation support from MusE and fork the code into a stand-alone notation program.
I didn't add any dynamics, articulations, slurs, or any lyric text(this is how I would get across my harmonic analysis is using lyric text for everything except the keys, which I would get across using staff text and then framing it in the Inspector), which could all lengthen the bar further, which I don't need.MuseScore was originally created as a fork of the MusE sequencer's codebase. But where Beethoven just wrote a long bar to compensate, my Musescore file has the bar go across the page and into the next page, which makes it impossible to fix the beaming at the very end of it. Note by note, it is exactly what Beethoven wrote. Now here is what that same bar looks like in my Musescore file: No notes crossing bars as you can tell just by glancing at it. Note: I did not make any style changes, style is at its defaults. But how? Having the bar go across the page like it does makes it hard to look at the end of the bar, and thus makes it hard to analyze the whole passage. Surely Musescore can compact the bar as necessary, right(and the bar wouldn't need all that much compaction)? Apparently not when it contains large groups of short notes, like the chromatic scale that occurs at Bar 10 of the Pathetique Sonata. The bar is going right across the page and into the next page. I am using Musescore 3.2.3 and I'm trying to analyze Beethoven's Pathetique sonata by first writing it down, and then analyzing the harmony.