Crescendo Music Notation Software

Free music score writing and composing software

• An intuitive interface for working with musical notation
• Arrange your own professional quality sheet music
• Compose music for film, a band, a score, or for fun

This program is perfect for composing original songs, music, scores and soundtracks, or you can try it with TwelveKeys music transcription software to transcribe music recordings and notate arrangements of your favorite music.

Crescendo is completely free. We hope you will like Crescendo so much that you will try our other software for musicians and audio software suite for a complete set of audio tools.

Point and click to easily add notation

Quickly add ties and slurs across notes

Brace staves for scores and ensembles

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Music Notation Writer Features

• Change the key signature and time signature
• Add whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes and rests (semibreve to semiquaver)
• Compose music in Treble, Bass or C Clefs
  (e.g., Alto and Tenor)
• Assign sharp, flat and natural accidentals to notes
• Keyboard shortcuts toggle between notes and rests
• Insert text to specify a title, tempo, dynamics or lyrics
• Drag notes to change their pitch or placement
• Select and drag bars to reorder measures
• Automatically detects if a measure has the correct beat amount for the time signature
• Adjust staff line placement by snapping them to margins or other staff lines
• Add ties and slurs across notes
• Zoom in and out for easier editing
• Create dotted notes, chords, add repeats, and more
• View history of work completed
• Brace staves together to compose scores for ensembles
• Save to Crescendo's file format, or export as MusicXML
• Print completed music projects or blank music sheets for hand transcription