Canorus
Canorus is a graphical music score editor written for the Qt4
toolkit. It is a sequel of the well-known music score editor for Linux,
NoteEdit. Canorus uses LilyPond for music engraving to achieve a very
high quality in the resulting documents. This software
supports note writing, scripting support, import/export of various file
formats, MIDI input and output and more.
Canorus offers a number of import and export filters for
LilyPond, MusicXML, Midi, NoteEdit and others.
Features include:
- Modern and flexible Qt4-based
graphical user interface with vector graphics for music elements,
multiple viewports on a single score
- Multiple voices - Polyphony and unlimited number of
contexts
- Multiple viewports on the same music score
- MIDI playback
- Transposition
- Lyrics
- Scalable icons and other graphics
- Multiple views of the score
- Write the score using mouse and keyboard on one or more
sheets as composers do and use copy&paste functionality then
- Type the score in LilyPond syntax using the Score Source
View
- Unlimited undo/redo
- Score elements:
- Notes, rests, various barlines
- Various key signatures, time signatures and clefs
- Triplets and other tuplets
- Ties, slurs and phrasing slurs
- Tempo marks (BPM), ritardando, accellerando
- Fixed dynamic marks (piano, forte etc.), crescendo,
decrescendo
- Repeat signs (repeat bars, segno, coda)
- Bookmarks, custom text signs, rehersal marks
- Pedal marks
- Instrument change
- Fingering
- Articulation marks (marcato, accent, tenuto, bow marks,
trills, pralls etc)
- Lyrics
- Figured bass
- Function marks
- Transposition and accidentals reinterpretation
- Preview and printing achieved externally by exporting the
score to LilyPond and running a PDF viewer application
- Playback of the score
- Live recording of Midi performance
- Insertion of notes and rests using Midi keyboard
- Uses native tar-gzipped XML file format
- Supports various resources you can add to score like
images, sounds, videos and others stored inside the score
- Export to LilyPond, Midi, PDF
- Import from LilyPond (incomplete), Midi and MusicXML
- Plugins
- Internationalization support: 12 languages
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