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Offline vviola

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Mac music notation software
on: February 09, 2010, 04:06:43 AM
Is there a program like Sibelius that is free? for Mac OSX?

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Re: Mac music notation software
Reply #1 on: February 09, 2010, 04:55:25 AM
You can try Finale Notepad, but I am not sure that is for Mac. It is free, though.

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Re: Mac music notation software
Reply #2 on: February 09, 2010, 05:03:24 AM
I think they're charging for that now.
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Re: Mac music notation software
Reply #3 on: February 09, 2010, 05:46:21 AM
Hmm, they are. It isn't bad though, for $9.95.

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Re: Mac music notation software
Reply #4 on: February 16, 2010, 10:00:55 PM
I found a program called MuseScore which is excellent, in case anyone else is looking for software like this.

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Re: Mac music notation software
Reply #5 on: February 21, 2010, 12:55:07 AM
I found a program called MuseScore which is excellent, in case anyone else is looking for software like this.

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Yep, I believe the MuseScore folks recently rolled out a port for OS X. Used to be Windows only.
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