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  • supercollider

    An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.

  • For the intrepid, especially those annoyed with the purported input-sluggishness of musescore et al, an interesting text-based alternative is LilyPond https://lilypond.org/

    My dad wrote an opera using LilyPond in vim, though I believe these days he's actually doing more with supercollider, which skips sheetmusic and goes right to sounds: https://supercollider.github.io/

  • abjad

    Abjad is a Python API for building LilyPond files. Use Abjad to make PDFs of music notation.

  • And for the intrepid folks who prefer algorithmic or computer-assisted composition, there's Abjad, a Python-based wrapper around LilyPond.

    https://abjad.github.io/

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  • obsidian-plugin-abcjs

    Plugin which renders music notations from code blocks

  • obsidian-releases

    Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

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