Music notation software is a computer program designed to create and print sheet music. General tradition in music, demands a complex system of musical notation known by all musicians in the world. Musical composition software reduces and makes easy the process music creation as it provides tools for writing and printing music. Basically, all musical notation software has a graphical interface as a score sheet in which you can write and listen what you are creating.

If we make a comparison of the modern musician with musicians from 300 years ago, we can conclude that our advantage is technology. In those years, yesterday musical composers used their hearing and their skills to create their compositions. In my opinion, that was a cumbersome process that requires too much time and knowledge. Nowadays, notation software makes easier the process of musical composition as we can listen what we are writing, and better, thanks to an internal MIDI recording system that most notation software has, we can record our music in real time while we perform it with our MIDI instrument.

Fortunately, music notation software is getting better day by day at the point where musical creation can go from the score sheet directly to the CD thanks to the virtual instrument systems.

I compiled a list of the best music notation software in the market.

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