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Awesome Music ★73813

A categorized collection of awesome music libraries, tools, frameworks and software.

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Audio Editing

Audacity ★1052 - a free, cross-platform digital audio editor.
Ardour - a cross-platform digital audio workstation emphasizing audio recording.
LMMS - another cross-platform digital audio workstation, more oriented towards making beats.

Audio Libraries

audio.js ★1838 - audio.js is a drop-in javascript library that allows HTML5’s <audio> tag to be used anywhere.
howler.js ★9161 - a Javascript audio library for the modern web.
JSyn - an audio synthesis software API for Java.
Librosa ★1604 - a python package for music and audio analysis, providing the building blocks necessary to create music information retrieval systems.
midi.js ★2399 - a framework for creating web-based MIDI apps.
mxml ★2 - MusicXML parsing and layout library.
PortAudio - a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library.
RustAudio - an aggregate of free and useful Audio, DSP and music libraries written in Rust.
Soundpipe ★524 - a lightweight DSP library written in C.

Audio Tools

Beets - a powerful command-line music organizer and manipulator.
Koel ★8506 - an open-source personal audio streaming server.
Lame - a high quality, free and open-source MP3 encoder.
lltag - automatic command-line mp3/ogg/flac file tagger and renamer.
Musikernel ★49 - a futuristic audio production platform (hardware support, APIs, hosts, plugins and more)
SoX - a free open-source command line utility for playing, converting and manipulating audio files.

Free Music Scores

cellist/Lilypond-Sheet-Music ★46 - a collection of music typeset with lilypond (mostly chamber music and music for cello).
ciconia/music ★10 - a collection of mostly baroque music, lots of sacred works by J. S. Bach, coded in lilypond/ripple.
CPDL - the choral public domain library contains more than 20K free scores of vocal music.
Éditions Nicolas Sceaux ★22 - baroque music scores (mainly French music), typeset using lilypond.
IMSLP - the International Music Score Library Project is the largest collection of public domain scores and parts on the web.
Mutopia ★106 - sheet music based on editions in the public domain.
wbsoft/lilymusic ★23 - beautiful LilyPond scores under free licenses.

MIDI Tools & Libraries

Midifile - C++ library for parsing Standard MIDI Files.
Timidity - an open-source command line synthesizer that plays MIDI files.

Music Notation

Abjad - a Python API for Formalized Score Control, based on Lilypond.
Denemo - a free music notation editor based on Lilypond.
Jan Angermüller’s music fonts page - A listing and visual comparison of different music fonts.
Frescobaldi ★281 - a free Lilypond sheet music editor.
Guido - a generic, portable library and API for the graphical rendering of musical scores.
Hacklily - online LilyPond-based sheet music editor (with optional GitHub integration).
i-score - a software for interactive music notation, with DAW features.
Inknote ★132 ⏳1Y - free, open source, browser based music notation and composition software.
LibMEI ★33 - a C++ library for reading and writing MEI files.
Lilybin - an open sourcle web-based lilypond editor.
Lilypond - free, open-source music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible.
Lilypond cook book - tips & tricks for getting the most out of lilypond.
Lilypond Snippet Repository - an online database of Lilypond snippets ideas, features and hacks.
Lilyvm ★2 ⏳2Y - Lilypond version manager.
Lydown ★10 ⏳1Y - a modern language for music notation, based on Lilypond.
Lyp ★45 - the Lilypond swiss army knife - easily install packages, manage multiple versions of Lilypond, and other tools for power users.
MuseScore ★2085 - free open-source music notation and composition software.
MusicKit ★30 - Music sheet rendering for iOS and OSX.
NOTATIO - a forum devoted to the practice of music notation.
OpenLilyLib ★70 - LilyPond tools - snippets, templates, and extensions.
Python-ly - a tool and library for manipulating LilyPond files.
Ripple ★15 ⏳4Y - DRY for Lilypond - generate scores and parts with minimal fuss.
Scorelib - a C++ library for parsing SCORE data files.
Tunefl ★20 ⏳2Y - LilyPond mini-score engraving and sharing service for musicians.
Verovio ★140 - a library and a toolkit for engraving MEI music notation into SVG.
Vexflow ★1974 - a JavaScript library for rendering music notation and guitar tablature.

Music Programming

Alda ★2814 - a music programming language for musicians.
Bach: Automated Composer’s Helper - a cross-platform set of patches and externals for Max, aimed to bring the richness of computer-aided composition into the real-time world.
Chuck ★234 - strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language.
CoffeeCollider ★189 ⏳2Y - a language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition in HTML5. “Write CoffeeScript, and be processed as SuperCollider.”
Common Music - an open source music composition system.
Csound - a user-programmable and user-extensible sound processing language and software synthesizer.
Faust - a functional programming language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and synthesis.
IanniX - a graphical open-source sequencer, based on Iannis Xenakis works, for digital art.
Inscore - an environmnent for the design of interactive, augmented music scores.
Leipzig ★330 ⏳1Y - a composition library for Overtone.
music21 - A Toolkit for Computational Musicology.
Music Suite - a language for generalized music notation and theory, based on Haskell.
Nyquist - a sound synthesis and composition language.
OpenMusic - a visual programming language based on Lisp.
Overtone ★4046 - an Open Source toolkit for designing synthesizers and collaborating with music.
Platonic Music Engine - an open-source music generation framework written in Lua.
Pure Data - a visual programming language for audio and other multimedia.
Sonic Pi - a live coding synth with an emphasis on educational use.
Sporth ★129 - a small stack based audio language.
SuperCollider - a programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition.
Tidal - a language built on Haskell for live coding patterns.

Music Theory

OpenMusicTheory - a growing, online “textbook” for music theory and aural skills.

Standards

MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) - an open-source effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure.
MusicXML - the standard open format for exchanging digital sheet music.
SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout) - a specification for mapping music symbols to Unicode for use in music fonts.

Other Awesomeness

Awesome Music Production ★41 - A curated list of software and resources to create music.
Awesome Web Audio ★329 - A curated list of awesome WebAudio packages and resources.

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