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<p>can be used to enter music that can then be edited with traditional or piano-roll-based notation.</p>

<p><big>History</big></p>
<p>The rapid growth of <a href="page.php?w=desktop_computer">desktop computer</a>s in the 1980s saw the creation of dozens of early scorewriters (see <a href="page.php?w=list_of_scorewriters">list of scorewriters</a>). They were a boon to young composers, music educators and composition students, providing a much less expensive way to create scores and parts for orchestral music and other works. However, they were hard to use;</p><p>
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