I've found some pretty cool music notation (ie: sheet music generation) software called Lilypond. I've used it to just tranpose a piece a tone higher. It's much easier to copy and paste a couple of lines of text than writing by hand 8 or so bars. I only gone through some of it's features (just putting lyrics, chords on a single part) but the examples given indicate that it is quite powerful.
A couple of good things:
- If I want to transpose the piece again, then I can just add a "transpose from-key to-key" command it will to it all automatically. Sweet
- It's essentially marked up text - no fiddling around placing notes, etc, on the page.
- It creates a midi file of the piece, so you can listen to it to very easily pick out mistakes in the text that you've entered
- It's free (open source)
- The lyric placement on the page is very good (although it took a little bit of fiddling to get it working correctly)
- There's only one small watermark at the bottom of the last page.
It's a pretty big download, but worth it, methinks.
There's: doco; index; cheat sheet.
