Denemo

What Denemo is

Denemo is a free desktop music notation program for composing, transcribing, arranging, and listening to music. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and supports MusicXML, MIDI, parts extraction, and tablature. Music can be entered with a keyboard, MIDI controller, mouse, or microphone. Denemo opens its own files and imports MIDI, LilyPond, and MusicXML. As you work, it uses LilyPond in the background to typeset notation. Its notation options include figured bass, historic noteheads and barlines, chords, and tablature. It can also help create exercise sheets and materials for aural training, note-reading, and playing practice. Scores can be printed or exported as images, MIDI, OGG, or WAV. Denemo can route MIDI or audio to other applications, such as JACK, and accepts LilyPond text and commands in scores. It is free to use, share, and change under the GPL. The download page lists version 2.6, dated March 11, 2022, as the current stable release, but warns that some links still lead to version 2.2. Its FAQ says the LilyPond parser may not handle many third-party files.