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Notation Software - Notation Composer

Easily create and arrange your own music using Notation Composer. Find music on the Internet, and arrange it to suit your tastes and skills. Or, write music from scratch with convenient composing tools for capturing your musical ideas. Listen to your music while you follow the notes on the screen, then edit the notation and the sound of the music, together or independently. Play accompaniment parts as you practice your instrument or sing along, reading the notes from the screen Print sheet music for yourself, and parts for members of your vocal or instrumental group. Changes you make to the parts are automatically reflected in the master score, and vice versa. Organize your work using the handy Playlist feature. Notation Composer is a delight to use for creating practice exercises or arrangements for yourself, or your instrumental or vocal ensemble. $125.95

Finale PrintMusic 2007 Win/Mac

The fast, easy way to bring your music to life with professional results. Get started right away -- the Setup Wizard makes it easy to create your score! Key and time signatures, transpositions, pickup measures, and more are configured for you instantly. Easily put notes on the page with multiple flexible options. PrintMusic is perfect for songwriters, students, teachers, church musicians, and band leaders. Human Playback gives your music nuance, as if performed by live musicians Band-in-a-Box Auto Harmonizing Add unlimited numbers of verses - automatic lyric placement Textured Paper Percussion notation Chord symbols & guitar fretboards Automatic note spacing and more Multiple Undo Save as audio file Connect to Finale NotePad and open PrintMusic files. $79.95

Sibelius 4 Educational Edition (Churches and other non-profits qualify for the educational discount)

Sibelius is the complete software for writing, playing, printing, and publishing music notation. It will make your life easier, save you time, produce fantastic results--and enable you to do things you might never have dreamed of, like publish your music on the Internet, or create your own CDs. The new version Sibelius 4 takes another giant leap forward, with astonishing new features no other program can touch Note from PrayTwice: This is my software of choice for choral and instrumental compositions, arrangements, and educational materials. Great new features in this version. $299.00

Smartscore 5 Pro Edition

There is simply no faster way to get printed music into your computer. Band arrangements, operas, hymns, musicals, orchestral parts and scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form within seconds after scanning. A useful tool for all reasons. Export formatted pages to Finale, Sibelius, Personal Composer and more, or print from right within Smartscore! Then think of all the possible ways you'd like to experience your printed music... push-button scanning, realistic playback, key/clef transposition, part extraction, page reformattting, auto-drum grooves, karaoke, CD burning, integrated MIDI visualization and file conversion including support for PDF, Finale® and MusicXML formats. Welcome to SmartScore 5! Note from PrayTwice: I use this software to transpose piano scores for my pianist at church with good results. I have even scanned bad-quality notation from 100+ year-old hymnals from my collection with a little editing.  $299.00