Features

• WYSIWYG design, notes are entered on a "virtual notepaper"
• TrueType font(s) for printing & display allows for high quality scaling to all sizes
• easy & fast note entry
• many editing functions
• MusicXML import/export
• Midi (SMF) import/export
• MuseData import
• Midi input for note entry
• integrated sequencer and software synthesizer to play the score
• print or create pdf files

More info

• MuseScore Homepage
• MuseScore Git workflow instructions.
• How to compile MuseScore?
• Build status:

License

MuseScore is licensed under GPL version 2.0. See LICENSE.GPL in the same directory.

Packages

• aeolus Clone of Aeolus

• awl Audio Widget Library, from the MusE project

• build Utility files for build

• bww2mxml Command line tool to convert BWW files to MusicXML. BWW parser is used by MuseScore to import BWW files.

• demos A few MuseScore files to demonstrate what can be done

• fluid Clone of FluidSynth, ported to C++ and customized

• fonts Contains fontforge source (sfd) + ttf/otf fonts. MuseScore includes the "Emmentaler" font from the Lilypond project.

• libmscore Data model of MuseScore

• mscore Main code for the MuseScore UI

• mstyle Clone of KDE4 style Oxygen

• msynth Abstract interface to Fluid + Aeolus

• mtest Unit testing using QTest

• omr Optical music recognition

• share Files moved to /usr/share/... on install

• test Old tests. Should move to mtest

• vtest Visual tests. Compare reference images with current implementation

• thirdparty Contains projects which are included for convenience, usually to integrate them into the build system to make them available for all supported platforms.

  • thirdparty/rtf2html Used for capella import

  • thirdparty/diff Not used currently. Diff, Match and Patch Library

  • thirdparty/ofqf OSC server interface. Based on OSC for Qt4

  • thirdparty/singleapp Clone from Qt Single Application

  • thirdparty/portmidi Clone from PortMidi

Installation

Read the developer handbook for a complete build walkthrough and a list of dependencies.

• unpack source distribution

    tar xvofj mscore-x.x.x.tar.bz2
  

• make

    cd mscore-x.x.x
    make release
  

if something goes wrong, then remove the whole build subdirectory with make clean and start new with make release

• install as root user

Program Documentation

To generate the program documentation with DoxyGen, type

Browse the documentation with your favourite html browser at build/Doc/html/index.html

Run

cd build.release/mscore
./mscore

to start MuseScore. On first invocation a demofile is shown. You probably want to change that in the "Preferences" dialog.

Debug

A debug version can be built by doing make debug above, instead of make release.

To test the debug version, type

cd build.debug/mscore
./mscore