Converting a Musical Score to a Playable Melody?

SA_Democrat asks: "As a geek who has recently discovered that he has a voice, I find myself looking for a particular style of software. I've joined a local chorale group, and am often the only bass singer in attendance. This means that I have to puzzle out fairly complicated pieces of music and pick out the melody on a keyboard between rehearsals. As a person who decodes music rather than someone who sight-reads, I find this extraordinarily difficult, especially when managing differing key and time signatures within a given piece. Does anyone have any experience with open-source software that allows the user to enter a piece of music using musical notation, and then plays that piece? I have found an astonishing array of programs that will play MP3, WAV files etc. but have not located anything that uses this more old fashioned method. If possible, the software should understand common notation like time signatures, keys, glissades, and so forth. What does Slashdot recommend?"

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Re:Nothing.

[black mariah]

Whoever modded me flamebait has obviously not actually tried to use any Linux sound software. Three fucking years I used Linux as my only OS, and in that time I found THREE sound apps worth using.

Hydrogen
Audacity
Rezound
Those three apps got me through a shitload of home recording. I'm considering doing a small Fedora setup just so I can use Hydrogen again. Nothing else I used was worth the effort it took to get it to the half-assed stage it was at. Rosegarden, Muse, Beast, Ardour... all total shit. If you don't believe me... actually TRY those sometime.