Nota Musica
Edit, Play, and Print Music using GTK4(Linux)
Do you like music?
Do you play an instrument, and even want to compose your own melodies?
Nota Musica will be a great help to realize your dreams.
Nota Musica edits and arranges your notes: It creates scores,
transposes, etc...
Nota Musica allows you to play your tunes.
Nota Musica prints your scores in a clear and harmonic manner.
Does this sound utopian? Don't panic! Nota Musica is easy to use. It's child's play.
Input of Pieces
A piece may be structured in up to 255 movements of up to 255 voices each.
Clef-, meter-, key signature-, and speed changes can be specified for every single voice. You can also enter interval deviations for voices (for example for a b-instrument).
Input of Notes
Notes can be entered either by using the mouse or the computer keyboard You can create chords and specify slurs, dynamics, ornaments, and repeats. You can also add lyrics and accord-names to your notes. Using the clipboard you can exchange notes between different pieces.
Editing Notes
Voices can be transposed by an interval or whole octaves. Bars will be automatically placed. You may import and export pieces to MIDI-files.
Playing Notes
Nota Musica provides MIDI files to play your music. For every movement and voice you may specifiy dynamics and fine tune MIDI-parameters to create high quality output.
Printing Notes
Note Musica typesets your notes automatically; you don't need to worry about the arrangement of the notes on the paper. You can choose to print either scores or single voices. If you print scores different systems may be printed in different sizes.
Once typeset, the notes may be previewed on the screen, printed or exported to a graphics-file.
Nota Musica uses the macro packages MusiXTeX and LaTeX. These packages are available free of charge.
System Requirements
To use Nota Musica, you need an x86_64 Linux system with the GTK4 library installed. Nota Musica is still in testing — if you are interested, please get in touch. It was originally developed for OS/2.
All Nota Musica Features at a Glance
- 255 movements with 255 voice each per file
- up to 4 billion notes per voice
- enter notes using the mouse or the keyboard
- support for all seven generally used clefs
- support for all kinds of notes, from whole notes to 64th, single and double dotted and triplets
- support for entering chords
- clef-, key- and measure changes are possible at any place in a voice
- manual and automatic placement of bars
- clipboard support
- more than 30 different ornaments
- automatic placement of lyrics and chord names, linked to notes and/or beats
- transposing instruments considered during playback
- import and export of standard MIDI files
- automatic transposing of notes with or without changing keys by intervals or octavs
- split voices at a specifiable tone
- automatic placement of rests
- automatic typesetting of notes with placement of bars and slurs
- instrument names can be printed
- automatic numbering of bars
- 30 staffs per system possible
- variable font size: 16pt, 20pt, and 24pt
- preview function
- printout is done using MusiXTeX\LaTeX (Open Source)
Last Edited: 2026-09-19