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 ...

MagicScore Guitar notation software by Maestro Music Software is now up to version 8. The software offers guitarists and other fretted instrumentalists easy tablature and notation software. Version 8 ...

MakeMusic on Thursday announced the release of Finale 2010, a major new release of its flagship music notation software for Mac OS X and Windows. Finale costs $600 for new customers, and upgrades are ...

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 ...

The programming software that professor Daniel Jones used for his honor’s music courses was a little outdated—the program was stored on floppy disks. With his students in mind, he decided to change ...

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.