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Nootka is an application to discover and learn classical score notation.
It helps to understand the rules of reading and writing scores and helps with developing skills of playing and singing notes from a score.
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 can guess a note on a score or its name
  • possibility to create own rules for exercises
  • accurate method for detecting sung and played sounds and melodies
  • natural sound of instruments
  • clefs (treble, bass and others) and grand stave
  • analyze of results (charts)
  • different kinds of guitars and theirs tuning
  • support piano, bandoneon and saxophones (experimental)
  • built-in metronome
  • Czech, 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

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