Crescendo Music Notation

NCH Software

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About this app

Crescendo Free Music Notation Editor is a simple and intuitive app for help with writing your musical compositions. This free music writing software allows you to create and save your own musical creations. Crescendo Free Music Creation software features a wide array of time and key signatures and notation symbols.

Crescendo Free Music Notation Editor is perfect for writing your own songs, music, scores, or soundtracks. This software is an excellent tool for teaching young musicians the value of score writing. Crescendo Free Notation Software is easy to learn and fun to use. Within no time, you will be writing your very own musical pieces with this great notation software.

Writing musical creations has never been easier with Crescendo Notation Software.

This free version is licensed for non-commercial use only. For commercial use, please install the version here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nchsoftware.crescendo

Ratings and reviews

This is an absolute headache of an app that won't help you write music. I will admit, I'm very new to writing music, but I think I know enough to critisize this app. First of all, half the functions are impossible to find quickly. Second, if you put a repeat bar across one section, it will show up across the entire piece. You can't get rid of it unless you delete it altogether. This goes for anything else you add that's not a note. The app's just a pain in the backside. Don't waste your time.

This application is very buggie. It is free, but I ended up buying it (because I like to support the work someone does to create a useful application). However it has many problems. Can't save my work. When using two staves there are times when the second staff will not retain the key signature. There are other problems that are too numerous to list. I am unable to recommend this app.

For me there's one really big disadvantage....the app stores the cdo files (the scores) in the root Android folder. If you want to copy them to another location for safe-keeping purposes, you will find that the app does not recognise them any more. Also, Android v13 makes it very, very difficult to gain access to this root folder.

What's new

Bugs fix
Performance improvements
[New Feature] Ability to print scores
[New Feature] Linked Staves