Best Music Notation in 2026

Create music in different time and key signatures

Write sheet music and guitar tabs

Music notation made easy with sharps, flats, accidentals, slurs, and more

Full version of Makemusic Finale 26 for sale to students, teachers, schools, non-profit organizations and churches.

Create your way. Finale offers you the freedom both of what you create and how you create it. Whether you’re imagining a simple lead sheet, a Broadway score, or something truly unorthodox, you enjoy the flexibility to make your music any way you wish, and to make it in the order and manner that best supports your inspiration.

Editing. Entering your music in Finale sets you free. In an instant you can move measures, change keys, and transform your music in countless ways. Finale even offers editorial input, like indicating when notes have been written out of an instrument’s range.

MuseScore's main purpose is the creation of high-quality engraved musical scores in a "What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get" environment.

t supports unlimited staves, linked parts and part extraction, tablature, MIDI input, percussion notation, cross-staff beaming, automatic transposition, lyrics (multiple verses), fretboard diagrams, and in general everything commonly used in sheet music.

Style options to change the appearance and layout are available, and style sheets can be saved and applied to other scores. There are pre-defined templates for many types of ensembles. Functionality can be extended by making use of the many freely available plugins.

NEW: SpectraLayers Elements 8

NEW: modernEQ

NEW: Preset search in the plug-in browser

Advanced sharing functionality: Finale 27 lets you quickly and easily share your music notation with anyone. You can upload and share privately or publicly, without ever leaving the app.

Support for Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL): SMuFL is a growing comprehensive standard that organizes musical characters into a common layout so music fonts are displayed correctly across every notation program that supports it — so you can spend more time creating and less time searching for music symbols.

Revised instrument list: Finale 27 sports a revised and expanded instrument list that ensures your notation looks great — no matter what instrument you’ve selected — and that you hear the proper sounds when playing back a document.

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Material: Made of plastic case, and with plastic mounting bracket, it is compact and lightweight, safe and does not get an electric shock. You can hang it on anywhere easily , or fix it on the wall or tie it on the tree.

Party accessories: Suitable for birthday parties, pool parties, disco, dance, pajama parties, holidays, weddings, Christmas, karaoke, DJ, Halloween, parties

Over 200 Engaging Lessons - eMedia Music Theory Tutor Volume 2 builds on the over 200 lessons found in Music Theory Tutor Volume 1 by adding over 200 more lessons covering more advanced areas of music theory.

Understand and recognize Musical Form - Learn about the construction of augmented and seventh chords; harmonic, melodic, and natural minor scales; modes; musical keys; the circle of fifths; and more.

Intelligent Practice - Answer questions the natural way. Tap out the answer to a rhythm question; hum two notes to identify an interval, sing the notes in a melody, or play them on your instrument. Learning music shouldn’t be about typing!