The following article presents a status report on the development of five of the most active notation software projects for Linux. Most of them are works in progress, but all are well along on their ...

When I was an untutored rock musician, I envied my colleagues who could read and write music notation. They could access and study material that literally was a closed book to me. So, at one point in ...

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, MakeMusic (formerly known as Coda Music Technologies) announced earlier this week that effective immediately the music notation program known as Finale would shut ...

You probably didn't hear about it, but the people that made the music of Broadway come to life in the pit all woke up with anxiety this morning as MakeMusic (formerly known as Coda Music Technologies) ...

Tewksbury, Mass.-based Avid Technology has announced the acquisition of London, England’s Sibelius Software in a deal valued at $23 million in cash. The deal puts on of the leading developers of music ...

MakeMusic have end-of-lifed Finale, the industry standard music notation software, which has been a mainstay on Mac since 1988 -- the same year that Photoshop, Quark XPress and Office were released.

There are only a couple pieces of software that do this: they all are limited to single-note entry, they are all integrated into bigger packages like Finale, and they all suck anyway. Go to a pawn ...

If you’re a composer and you want to use your Mac to create music, you may be interested by music notation software but put off by the price without having a chance to try it first. If that’s the case ...