What is Quincy?
Quincy is an open-source, free music notation and composition software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It provides an intuitive and feature-rich user interface to make music notation and score writing simple and efficient. Key features of Quincy include:
- User-friendly and customizable graphical WYSIWYG interface
- Input notes and other symbols via mouse, MIDI keyboard, or computer keyboard
- Advanced score editing capabilities like transposition, copy/paste, measure operations
- Multi-staff and multi-page score management
- Real-time note playback for instant audio feedback
- Support for MIDI files, MusicXML and many other formats
- Guitar tabs and tablature editing
- Printing and exporting scores to PDF, image formats, MusicXML among others
- Completely free and open source software under GNU GPLv3 license
With its simplicity and accessible features, Quincy is a great option for musicians and composers to write and arrange music scores digitally. The open source nature also allows extending its capabilities via plugins and customization.
Microsoft Visual Studio, PyCharm, Code::Blocks, Eclipse, SharpDevelop, Lazarus, Bloodshed Dev-C++, Xcode, Delphi, Qt Creator, KDevelop, CodeLite are some alternatives to Quincy.