Introducing Noteflight
It’s my great pleasure to make an introduction: Noteflight, please say hello to the world. World, there’s something I’d like you to meet: Noteflight.
Noteflight is a new kind of tool for musicians, composers and educators: an online music notation editor. With Noteflight, anyone can create, share and publish musical scores using nothing more than a web browser. This ease of editing, sharing and publishing are what make Noteflight so different from other notation editors: music notation can finally be used on the Web in as natural and flexible a way as text, images or videos.
Here’s an example of a score that was created in Noteflight, shared, and embedded in this post — Scaramella va a la Guerra by the 15th century composer Josquin Des Prez:
This isn’t just a picture of music, but an interactive music display; for example, you can select and listen to individual notes and measures. To get a sense of how the score above was created using the Noteflight score editor, please watch this video:
Scores are saved on the Noteflight server, so you and anyone you share them with can access them from anywhere on the Web. The music can be heard as well as seen: Noteflight has its own integrated audio playback, that sounds consistent on every computer. And Noteflight keeps track of all the past versions of your scores, so you can always go back and see where you’ve been.
The Noteflight beta is free and we’re accepting signups. As with all beta software, Noteflight is constantly being improved and extended; this blog is the best place to find out what’s happening (and what’s going to happen next) with Noteflight. Besides filling out the score editing features of Noteflight, we are planning additional services and capabilities for sharing music and organizing content. Stay tuned!