music composition?

[Kurt Wall]

In a 0.5K blaze of typing glory, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I know, I know, google.
> But maybe someone knows.  I'd like some sort of X-based GUI that allows 
> me to write music, i.e, that will allow me to place notes on a music 
> staff and print out the resulting score.  Any recommendataions?
> Thanks!

Your (my) best bet is MuseScore:

MuseScore: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mscore/

I also like NoteEditor:

http://tan.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html

See also (for example):

abcm2ps: http://moinejf.free.fr
abc2mtex: http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc2mtex/INTRO.html
abc+: http://abcplus.sourceforge.net/
MuX2d: http://mux2d.sourceforge.net/

Kurt
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