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LilyPond vs MC Musiceditor

LilyPond

lilypond.org

MC Musiceditor

mcmusiceditor.com

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FigureLilyPondMC Musiceditor
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source——
WindowsYesYes
macOSYes—
LinuxYesYes
Plans published12
Spec score · Music notation software8.4 (#9)7.5 (#30)
Deploymentdesktopdesktop
Free planYesYes
MIDI supportYesYes
MusicXML supportYesYes
PurposeLilyPond is a music engraving program for producing sheet music.MC Musiceditor is free and open source music notation software.

Plans

LilyPond

  • LilyPondFree

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MC Musiceditor

  • FreeFree
  • MC MusiceditorFree

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In their own words

LilyPond

LilyPond is a desktop music-engraving program for producing sheet music, from classical and early music to modern scores, tablature, vocal music, lead sheets, educational materials, and orchestral projects. You enter score information as human-readable text; LilyPond then handles spacing, page and line breaks, clashes among lyrics, notes, and chords, and the shaping of slurs and beams. Layout settings can be changed, with text-based style sheets and functions written in the built-in Scheme language. Programs or scripts can edit or generate input files, and the command-line tool can be called from other applications. The site describes integrations for LaTeX and HTML, plus an extension for OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. User-developed editors include Frescobaldi, Denemo, and Spontini-Editor; they are separate from LilyPond’s core. The text workflow can be used with speech recognition and screen readers. LilyPond is free software under the GNU General Public License, with GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows desktop support. Windows binaries do not support Windows 7 or 8; macOS binaries require version 10.15 or later.

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MC Musiceditor

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