10 Facts About MuseScore

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MuseScore is a scorewriter for Windows, macOS, and Linux supporting a wide variety of file formats and input methods.

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MuseScore is accompanied by a freemium mobile score viewer and playback app, and an online score sharing platform.

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3.

MuseScore was originally created as a fork of the MusE sequencer's codebase.

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4.

MuseScore company uses income from their commercial sheet music sharing service to support the development of the free notation software.

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5.

In 2018, the MuseScore company was acquired by Ultimate Guitar, which added full-time paid developers to the open source team.

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6.

From 2021 to June 2022, the MuseScore company relocated its headquarters to Cyprus with Muse Group.

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7.

MuseScore includes an optical music recognition feature which can convert PDFs to the native MuseScore file format,.

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8.

Since May 2014 MuseScore has mobile apps available for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire which tie into the MuseScore score sharing site.

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9.

Many educational institutions make use of MuseScore, including Drew University and the Ionian University.

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10.

In 2011, MuseScore launched a Kickstarter campaign to create high-quality, freely available digital score and audio versions of the Goldberg Variations.

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