Non-CWN Music Notation Software

[Fred G. Unn]

Stumbled upon this cool list of music notation software for musical systems other than Common Western Notation:
https://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/mus ... -software/

[OCTO]

"Braille Music" -- now I recall the great composer Joaquín Rodrigo. As a child he lost his sight caused by a disease. Yet, he managed to learn several instruments and develop his own braille for music. He composed the entire opus, including orchestral compositions, totally blind.

[OCTO]

Here is the verbatim copy, in the case it disappears:

Armenian Chant

● LimonjianNotation – font developed by Ruben Tarumian and sponsored by the Vem Cultural and Educational Foundation; accompanying handbook, A Brief Guide To Armenian Musical Notation, written by Seda Stamboltsyan.

Braille Music

● BMC – Braille Music Compiler – developed by Mario Lang; converts Braille Music into MusicXML and Lilypond
● BME2 Braille Music Editor –
● Braille Music 2021 (BM2021) – developed by non-profit association, Giuseppe Paccini
● Braille Music Notator v0.9.3b – developed by Toby W. Rush; online editor of braille music
● Braille Music Viewer v0.9.3b – developed by Toby W. Rush; used to display self-translating excerpts of braille music on any web page
● Concert-O-Braille – developed by ?; out of business; prints Braille scores from NIFF files
● Freedots – developed by Mario Lang; converts MusicXML into Braille Music
● GOODFEEL – developed by dancingdots; converts Lime to music Braille
● music21.braille.translate – developed by Michael Cuthbert, Christopher Ariza, Benjamin Hogue, and Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer; Braille music transcription with export function
● Music4VIP (Music for visually impaired people) – developed by a consortium of European universities and colleges
● Toccata – developed by ?; Braille Music Transcription software

Byzantine Chant

● BZQ – developed by Panagiotis Katsoulis
● Byzantina 1.0 – developed by Stefanos Souldatos and Father Ephraim [DEAD LINK]; Byzantina 1.1 available here
● Byzantinografos 2.0 – developed by Gezerlis G. Velissarios
● ByZ\LaTeX – developed by Ioannis A. Vamvakas and Panagiotis Kotopoulis; Byzantine music using LaTeX.
● ByzWriter 2.0 – developed by Dr. Gezerlis G. Velissarios [DEAD LINK]
● EBYPES – developed by ?; byzantine chant notation typography [DEAD LINK – link farm]
● “EZ” Byzantine Music Font Package – developed by St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery
● KA Arvanitis – developed by Trevor Bullock; font styled on neumes in Ioannis Arvanitis’ Akathist book; used in Kassia Byzantine notation program
● Kassia – developed by Trevor Bullock; to create music written in Byzantine notation. It takes an XML file, parses the neumes and lyrics, and generates a formatted PDF using ReportLab
● Melodos – developed by Savas Papadopoulos
● Neanes – developed by Daniel G. Arthur; uses “EZ” Byzantine Music Font Package created by St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery
● Psaltiki Recognition Toolkit – developed by Christoph Dalitz (primary developer), Georgios K. Michalakis, and Christine Pranzas; Gamera toolkit for optical recognition of byzantine chant notation

China

● Cipher Music (SIL) keyboard – developed by SIL Language Technology; Indonesian Cipher Music Notation (Kepatihan) and Chinese jiǎnpǔ notation
● Doulos SIL Cipher – developed by SIL Language Technology; Indonesian Cipher Music Notation (Kepatihan) and Chinese jiǎnpǔ notation
● Fengya Composer Software (Fēngyǎ Zuòqǔ Dàshī Ruǎnjiàn | 风雅作曲大师软件) – developed by Fengya Software Co.; supports jiǎnpǔ, guqin tablatures, and other chinese notation systems in addition to music production features.
● Guangling Shenqi – developed by guanglingsan.com; Guqin jianzipu, a form of simplified character notation
● Jianpu – developed by 0aax; jiǎnpǔ notation
● Musicxml_to_jianpu – developed by Che-Huai Lin; jiǎnpǔ notation
● Qin Music Notation Generator – developed by Candy Yiu; combination Chinese characters and other music components
● S-Music – by A1 Soft; jiǎnpǔ notation
● Simp Erhu (Simplified Musical Notation Input System) – by ?; jiǎnpǔ notation

India

● Carnatic Music Notation Typesetter – developed by Arunk; web-based application that allows typesetting sheet music for Carnatic music. It can generate notations in English, and Indic languages: Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada.
● Carnatic Music Typesetting – developed by GK Palem
● Carnatika – developed by Vaitheeswaran S B
● Chanda Player 1.0 – developed by Dharambir Singh Dhadyalla; software to create chandas and change the swaras in different groupings
● iSargam – developed by Stanly Mammen, Ilango Krishnamurthi, A. Jalaja Varma, and G. Sujatha
● MIDI Swarlipi – developed by Dev Bali
● Ome Swarlipi – developed by Dr. Ragini Trivedi
● SangeetXML – developed by Chandan Misra
● SwaralipiXML – developed by Chandan Misra, Anupam Basu, Tuhin Chakraborty, and Baidurya Bhattacharya; supports Carnatic and Hindustani systems
● Swara Player 1.1 – developed by Dharambir Singh Dhadyalla; software to  input swaras in sargam to hear the notations or practise along
● Vishwamohini Melody Player – developed by Shivraj Sawant

Indonesia

● Cipher Music (SIL) keyboard – developed by SIL Language Technology; Indonesian Cipher Music Notation (Kepatihan) and Chinese jiǎnpǔ notation
● DaminatilaFont – developed by Asep Saepudin; used for Sundanese drum notation and gamelan
● Doulos SIL Cipher – developed by SIL Language Technology; Indonesian Cipher Music Notation (Kepatihan) and Chinese jiǎnpǔ notation
● KepatihanPro – developed by designed by Matthew Arciniega and formatted by Ray Weisling to allow it to be on the same computer with the earlier font Kepatihan by Carter Scholz; font used for cipher notations
● Notasi Angka – developed by Danny Salim; number/cipher music notator
● Parnumation 3.0 – developed by Risky Aswi Ramadhani, Itot Bian Raharjo
● Pipilan – developed by Charles Matthews; program built in Cycling’ 74 Max for composition involving gamelan and electronics
● Text Based Chipper Notation for Angklung Music Compositions – developed by Eko Mursito Budi, Asep Suhada, Hermawan K. Dipojono, Andrianto Handojo, and Joko Sarwono

Iran

● Farabi Composer – developed by Persian Musicshop

Japan

● Koto Score Generator – developed by Craig Stuart Sapp and Sachiko Deguchi; based on the Humdrum **koto specification
● Scoremaker – developed by Kawaii; supports jiǎnpǔ notation

Jewish Cantillation

● Trope Trainer – developed by American Conference of Cantors, Hazzan Solutions, and the Reform Movement; web-based cantillation training software

Thailand

● Mahori – developed by Kittiphong Meesawat; music notation software into either Thai alphabet or number music notation.

Turkey

● Mus2 – developed by Utku Uzmen and M. Kemal Karaosmanoğlu
● Nihavent – developed by Utku Uzmen; early version of Mus2
● SymbTr – developed by M. Kemal Karaosmanoğlu

Western Chant; Early Modern European

● Caeciliae – developed by Dr. Paul F. Ford; font designed to assist in the notation of “modern” (square note) notation of Gregorian chant
● Chanter – developed by Timothy Kozak; music editor that uses Gregorian Chant notation
● Ciconia 1.8 – developed by Michael Scott Cuthbert; font for 14th and early-15th century music notation
● GABC – developed by by a monk of the Abbey of Sainte Madeleine du Barroux and has been improved by Élie Roux and by other monks of the same abbey; notation based on ASCII characters enabling creation of Gregorian chant scores
● GregEdit – developed by Abbaye Notre-Dame de Fontgombault; software for editing and hearing Gregorian chant
● GregorioTEX – developed by Élie Roux, Olivier Berten, Henry So Jr, Br. Samuel Springuel, Br. Elijah Schwab, Jakub Jelínek, Br. Gabriel-Marie; converts gabc file into a GregorioTEX file; details
● Grégoire – developed by by a Benedictine monk, for use in his monastery; program for editing partitions for Gregorian chant
● Illuminare Score Editor – developed by The Gregorio Project; onilne score editor for Gregorian chant
● Medieval – developed by Robert Piéchaud; Finale plug-in

Znameny Chant

● Fonts-Znam – developed by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons; fonts for typesetting Znamenny and other related Slavic neumatic music notations systems (Demestvenny, Put, Kondakarian)
● HookUp – Neumatic Editor – developed by ; HTML-based Neumatic Notation Editor

Miscellaneous

● DigiScore – research project exploring digital scores.
● Flat – developed by Tutteo; collaborative online music notation platform
● Grey Larsen Irish Traditional Music Ornamentation Symbols for Lilypond – developed by Bret Pimentel
● Hellenic Music Notation – developed by Pablo Bellinghausen; A fully-chromatic notation system with emphasis on legibility and the use of Greek naming conventions
● Hummingbird – developed by Blake West and ?; new type of notation system
● Impro-Visor – developed by Robert M. (Bob) Keller and others at Harvey Mudd College; allows the easy construction of leadsheets
● LeadMuse (LM) – developed by Andrei-Lucian Dragoi; uses a numerical musical notation system (NMNS) and a modular periodic bilinear (musical) staff (MPBS) based on the microtonalist Leo de Vries’ “diatonic twinline” musical staff
● Lilychant – developed by the Nottingham Russian Orthodox Church; Lilypond based software allow to creation of musical scores for Orthodox chants
● Orarion – developed by Ilya Tolchenov; web-based notation program optimised for writing Orthodox choral chants
● Nashville – developed by S. Goudie; converts Nashville Number System (NNS) to chords
● NotesTyper – developed by Alexey Arkhipenko; converts text typing into music
● Symbolist – developed by R. Gottfried and J. Bresson; library for graphic/symbolic score editing
● TextMusic app – developed by Supertintin Co., Ltd; for creating numbered music notations like jiǎnpǔ, not angka, and other cipher-numeric music notation systems

[Schneider]

See also:
● https://clairnote.org/ – developed by Paul Morris, alternative music notation system
● https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Document ... hord-grids – developed by Jean Abou Samra, jazz notation