Musescore is a remarkable notation application ... and due to its open source licensing it's entirely free will always remain free. You can download the free MuseScore notation app at MuseScore.org.

However the overarching MuseScore project has two largely separate and significantly different branches:

Encompassing those entities is Muse Group (www.mu.se), the parent company which is growing and now manages products such as MuseScore.org, MuseScore.com, StaffPad, Audacity, audio.com, Ultimate Guitar, and more.

I've assembled a curated set of scores here on singingwood.com that shows a range of the repertoire that I've created and use in private and group lessons.

Why? When I was learning music I encountered decades of badly notated repertoire, particularly outside of classical and jazz repertoires. And because publishing is so often so far off the mark, I've often said that "What passes as music publishing borders on '"music fraud.'" Additionally I also found broad swaths of repertoire unnotated. So I've always notated about 99% of the notation that I use in my lessons. And to illustrate a) what happens everyday at singingwood.com behind the scences b) the quality of the lesson material I create and use in private and group lessons.

Many of my score are public/visible and playable on museScore.com public scores:

You can see all my public scores at my MuseScore profile here, and my organized "sets" here.

And with an inexpensive MuseScore.com subscription you can print my scores, download certain ones that I've allowed, rate them 1 to 5 stars, and comment. The subscription also allows you to print over one million scores sitewide and you can download many of those scores.

The Play button is prominent in the upper left corner at MuseScore.com, and you have options such as Speed Control and Looping—but those features are better supported in the free desktop/laptop MuseScore notation app.

Linked Audio: I've linked audio to some scores so you'll hear an actual recording during playback. Unfortunately, at present, this option doesn't work on mobile devices so you'd merely hear the score rendered with MuseScore's internal synthesized sounds.

Fortunately the linked audio feature works great when viewing in a desktop/laptop browser.

Those who share scores on MuseScore.com can designate them as downloadable. If you have a MuseScore.com pro subscription you download such scores. Once downloaded to your desktop or laptop computer you can open MuseScore documents, play them, change the speed, loop sections, and even edit the score for personal use.

And the app's interface is nicer and offers more features that elsewhere.

I don't know much about the mobile version of the MuseScore app ...and encountered difficulties when trying to use it.

That said, MuseGroup has acquired StaffPad's mobile app so we can probably expect StaffPad's features to merge with MuseScore mobile, resulting in something more useful and better aligned with the Laptop/Desktop GUI. And/or StaffPad will be updated to export to .mscz format (the museScore file format) and MusicXML (the popular interchange format) which user could open in either the desktop and mobile versions of MuseScore and StaffPad mobile.

You'll likely be surprised to hear piano on pieces I've scored for guitar, violin and other instruments. Here's why I've done so. At present, the MuseScore offers only a few realistic sounds, such as its grand piano. Since instruments like guitar and mandolin sound pretty cheesy I set playback to the piano sound instead, and I do so for most other instruments too. Soon musescore will include a better sound library and via VST I'll also have access to a wide range of very high quality sounds for a wide range of instruments. Once that occurs my scores will sound far more realistically!

In contrast, I've linked some of my projects—like "Between the River and the Road"— to a acoustic audio recording I made. And some scores, like Southwind, are a hybrid of synthesized sounds and real audio recording; for instance, the guitar accompaniment on Southwind is my steel string guitar performance played with a partial capo

Unfortunately currently, as mentioned above, linked audio does not play on mobile devices. To hear the intended sound open the score in a desktop or laptop browser.

Finally, since there are limitations with MuseScore's linked audio, I've provided some links that simply open an audio recording with no music notation.