Interactive Classics music games bring the work of great composers to children as young as five years old - in a way that's both fun and accessible.

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learni

List of free educational music software.

OSWINS DVD is a collection of Free and Open Source software for educational use that run on Windows. The educational software varies from mathematics to music, from science to graphics, from programming to educational gamesi and includes office tools, b

Tunefinder X is a Melody Index. It will show you the name of the composer and composition for any of over 13,000 melodies from classical and popular music when all you know is the melody itself.Just click-play the melody's first ten notes on an on-scree

Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down music without changing its pitch, to analyse chords and show you what notes are present, and the capability of adding markers an

Digital audio to MIDI converters and plugins for Macintosh and Windows.

Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and

Solfege is free music education software.Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. Solfege - Smarten your ears!FeaturesRecognise melodic and harmonic intervalsCompare interval sizesSing the intervals the computer asks forIdentif

We publish in-depth Software and Hardware reviews of interest to musicians, especially those using computers to make music, although in the modern environment that's virtually everyone.In The Studio, you will also find practical hands-on tutorials, Hint

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VoceVista is a simple-to-use software application for the PC. While it can be used to analyze vocal signals for a variety of applications, such as research and vocal pathology, it was developed primarily for singing teachers to anaylze the singing voice,

Rondo - the unique MIDI player for Mac OS X! Unlike other MIDI players Rondo has been designed to help you follow the music as it plays. Innovative features such as a vertical piano roll with horizontal live playing keyboard and visual track filtering hel

LilyPond is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files. It is Free Software (‘open source’).

jam2jam is an application that generates music that you can control while it plays. Even better, you can connect via a network with your friends who have jam2jam to jointly control the music. Jam just like a band, but without the need for complex instrume

Capo is a musician's best friend. It lets you slow down your favorite songs, so you can hear the notes and learn how they are played.

Free video tutorials on Sibelius 6.

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats.

MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iP

Open Digital ScoresOpen Score Format is an open and non-proprietary distribution, interchange and archive file format for digital scores (sheet music). The motivation for developing the format is to improve choice - both for content creators and consumer

Impromptu has been designed as a teaching tool to help you interrogate and develop your own musical intuitions. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the text Developing Musical Intuitions, and the accompanying music audio CD. Please remember that

The Music Software Guide is published by The Fun Music Companyhttp://www.funmusicco.comThe Fun Music Company independent review team reviews each piece of software they can.

Practice reading music with quizzes tailored to suit your needs. See every wrong answer drawn on a staff next to the correct answer.

8 Free, Cross-Platform Apps for Musicians

Impro-Visor ("Improvisation Advisor") is a software tool designed by musician and computer scientist Bob Keller to help jazz musicians work out, hear, and record solo ideas, including studying the work of others. It provides a notation capability for lead

A "donation ware" digital audio workstation for Mac and Lynux.

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WEB-BASED AND TRADITIONAL MUSIC APPLICATIONSThe following are links to some of the best free web-based and traditional applications for creative musical activities available on the Internet. This listing will be updated from time to time.

FlexiMusic makes your home PC into a complete music studio. You will find FlexiMusic products to be fun, easy to use, and economical. No matter what your experience level is, Ours is among the best music software available for editing and creating music o

This list of free mac music software exists to help people to have fun with and become inspired by creating electronic music using their macs.