...to play scores

Nootka /nuːtka/ is an application that helps understand the basics of music notation.
For sight reading and practice of playing musical scores.

​Long story short: the user plays notes (melody) displayed by the app,
which then in real time checks if the notes was played correctly.

The application is free and open source.
It works under Windows, Linux, Mac and Android...

https://nootka.sourceforge.io

Features

• interactive interface to discover the rules of musical notation
• exercises where user can play or may guess a note on a score or its name
• possibility to create own rules for exercises
• importing melodies from musicXML file format - creating exercises based on them
• accurate method for detecting sung and played sounds and melodies
• natural sound of supported instruments
• clefs (treble, bass and others) and grand stave
• analyze of results (charts)
• different kinds of guitars, ukulele and theirs tuning
• also support for piano, bandoneon and saxophones (experimental)
• built-in metronome
• Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Slovenian and Russian translations

Download and Installation

Here is download page
But Nootka is available in installers of many Linux distributions.

Also in Google Play Store

Testing nightly builds

Nightly builds for testing next Nootka releases:
Linux AppImage, MacOs bundle, Windows installer
Hosted on SourceForge

Compilation from sources

• detailed instruction

Help

• Help topics

• Bug tracker

• Feature request

Translations

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Contributing

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