Forte Standard is the full version of the world's most intelligent music notation software. It combines all the tools you need to create, edit and perform music with a full-featured score notation engine and visual editing tools for producing professional-quality printed scores. The most powerful feature of Forte is its well-designed user interface that lets you spend your precious time in your work instead of in learning the software itself!
MuseScore is a free and open source music scorewriter. MuseScore is a WYSIWYG editor, complete with support for score playback and import/export of MusicXML and standard MIDI files. Percussion notation is supported, as is direct printing from the program.The program has a clean user interface, with fast note editing input similar to the step-time note entry found in the popular commercial Scorewriting software packages, Finale and Sibelius.
