NoteWorthy Composer
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NoteWorthy Composer (NWC) is a scorewriter application made by NoteWorthy Software.

NoteWorthy Composer (NWC) is a graphical score editor for Microsoft Windows computers (from Windows 95 to Windows Vista), and is also reported to work on PCs under Linux with WINE. Versions 1.xx of NWC have been available since the release of Version 1.00 in October 1994, and Version 2, which has been in beta development since around 2004. Version 2 was released in September 2008.

NWC is intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files as well as graphical WMFs. The user interface is driven conveniently by key touch, but also accepts mouse movement. Visual result is immediate, and audible result is also available at any time. Notes can also be entered by playing on a MIDI device, when configured. In version 2.xx, the notes can be heard as they are entered.

The NWC file format is undocumented and facilities to convert it into documented formats are limited. Early versions of the NWC file format could be converted to Lilypond files via a free third-party program1, but this program has not been updated since 2005 and does not appear to support recent NWC formats.original research? A free Python program to convert NWC format to Lilypond, which does appear to support recent NWC formats to some extentoriginal research? (although the program is also apparently unmaintained and fails on some of the sample files on the NWC web pageoriginal research?), can be found as part of the LilyPondTool package.2

Noteworthy's rendering of a D Freygish scale

A feature of the user interface is that notation is displayed during editing. Each staff proceeds linearly from left to right, without being wrapped to the screen. Staff systems are visually broken to fit margins during page layout, allowing many possibilities at "print time", so solo instrument or full conductor can be produced with the same file. Many users prefer this editor layout over the so-called WYSIWYG editors because slowdowns in note entry, as the composition becomes larger, are much less dramatic than in WYSIWYG editors. Print preview is available for adjustments to page layout.

The program lacks the more advanced engraving, graphic sophistication, playback and publishing capabilities of more expensive scriptwriting software such as Sibelius or Finale. It does, however, allow the rendering of custom key signatures which do not follow the usual circle of fifths order of sharps and flats. It is also much less expensive (US $49) than Sibelius (US $599) and Finale (US $600). A free viewer is available. A fully-functional demo version of the program can be downloaded at Noteworthy Software's website. Besides the demo program, a downloadable plug-in for Winamp allows Winamp to play files from NWC.

Because of the availability of a free viewer, Noteworthy has been adopted as the standard score distribution format by the large hymn database, the CyberHymnal. An "unofficial" catalog of compositions and helpful files contributed by users (including a complete transcription of Handel's Messiah) is available, the NoteWorthy Scriptorium.

References

  1. ^ nwc2ly - NWC exporter for Lilypond (by Mike Wiering)
  2. ^ NWC-to-Lilypond converter in LilyPondTool (2005).

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