<s>
MusicEase	B-Application
is	O
a	O
proprietary	B-Application
WYSIWYG	B-Application
scorewriter	B-Application
created	O
by	O
Gary	O
Rader	O
and	O
produced	O
by	O
MusicEase	B-Application
Software	O
(	O
formerly	O
known	O
as	O
Grandmaster	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
enables	O
computers	O
using	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
and	O
Mac	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
X	I-Operating_System
to	O
produce	O
musical	O
notation	O
and	O
listen	O
to	O
them	O
in	O
MIDI	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MusicEase	B-Application
was	O
initially	O
created	O
under	O
DOS	B-Device
using	O
muLisp	O
The	O
first	O
version	O
appeared	O
in	O
1987	O
and	O
was	O
completely	O
controlled	O
by	O
the	O
keyboard	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1995	O
,	O
a	O
Windows	O
version	O
was	O
created	O
using	O
Allegro	B-Language
Common	I-Language
Lisp	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Around	O
2010	O
Mac	O
and	O
Windows	O
versions	O
were	O
created	O
using	O
LispWorks	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
MusicEase	B-Application
is	O
both	O
a	O
music	O
score	B-Application
editor	I-Application
and	O
an	O
automatic	O
accompaniment	O
generator	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
score	B-Application
editor	I-Application
,	O
the	O
user	O
can	O
create	O
,	O
edit	O
,	O
play	O
and	O
print	O
high	O
quality	O
music	O
notation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MusicEase	B-Application
is	O
a	O
constraint-based	O
system	O
with	O
a	O
large	O
amount	O
of	O
knowledge	O
of	O
music	O
notation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Jerry	O
Pournelle	O
,	O
reviewer	O
for	O
Byte	O
Magazine	O
,	O
says	O
The	O
samples	O
[	O
of	O
music	O
printouts	O
from	O
MusicEase ]	O
I	O
have	O
seen	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
couple	O
I	O
have	O
produced	O
,	O
are	O
sure	O
in	O
the	O
same	O
league	O
as	O
hand	O
engraved	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
many	O
people	O
are	O
familiar	O
with	O
word	B-General_Concept
processors	I-General_Concept
,	O
the	O
notation	O
aspect	O
of	O
MusicEase	B-Application
is	O
designed	O
to	O
work	O
much	O
like	O
a	O
word	O
processing	O
program	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Blocks	O
can	O
be	O
cut	O
from	O
one	O
location	O
and	O
pasted	O
into	O
another	O
location	O
and	O
then	O
everything	O
can	O
be	O
reformatted	O
with	O
just	O
several	O
keystrokes	O
(	O
using	O
MusicEase	B-Application
's	O
cast-off	O
function	O
which	O
redetermines	O
system	O
breaks	O
so	O
that	O
the	O
density	O
of	O
notes	O
in	O
each	O
system	O
is	O
roughly	O
the	O
same	O
followed	O
by	O
the	O
justify	O
function	O
to	O
stretch/shrink	O
all	O
staves	O
so	O
they	O
horizontally	O
span	O
from	O
the	O
left	O
margin	O
to	O
the	O
right	O
margin	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
MusicEase	B-Application
supports	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
additional	O
generally	O
useful	O
functions	O
such	O
as	O
true	O
transposition	O
(	O
as	O
opposed	O
to	O
just	O
shifting	O
existing	O
configurations	O
up	O
or	O
down	O
on	O
the	O
staff	O
)	O
,	O
part	O
extraction	O
(	O
any	O
combination	O
of	O
system	O
staves	O
can	O
be	O
extracted	O
)	O
,	O
scaling	O
of	O
the	O
music	O
to	O
a	O
large	O
range	O
of	O
sizes	O
,	O
inverting	O
or	O
retrograding	O
selected	O
blocks	O
of	O
notes	O
,	O
combining	O
2	O
staves	O
containing	O
single	O
voices	O
into	O
a	O
single	O
staff	O
containing	O
mixed	O
single	O
and	O
double	O
stemmed	O
voicing	O
and	O
vice	O
versa	O
(	O
splitting	O
a	O
single	O
staff	O
with	O
several	O
voices	O
into	O
2	O
separate	O
staves	O
,	O
each	O
containing	O
a	O
single	O
voice	O
)	O
,	O
automatically	O
adding	O
chord	O
fret	O
diagrams	O
,	O
using	O
any	O
computer	O
fonts	O
for	O
verses	O
,	O
titles	O
,	O
etc.	O
,	O
unicode	O
text	O
support	O
,	O
and	O
displaying	O
music	O
as	O
tablature	O
and/or	O
as	O
shape	O
notes	O
(	O
4	O
or	O
7	O
shape	O
systems	O
---	O
the	O
shapes	O
associated	O
with	O
scale	O
degrees	O
can	O
be	O
fully	O
customized	O
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
MusicEase	B-Application
was	O
used	O
by	O
University	O
of	O
Colorado	O
at	O
Boulder	O
Professor	O
Emeritus	O
of	O
Music	O
Karl	O
Kroeger	O
to	O
create	O
much	O
of	O
the	O
music	O
in	O
Music	O
of	O
the	O
New	O
American	O
Nation	O
-	O
Sacred	O
Music	O
from	O
1780	O
to	O
1820	O
,	O
for	O
which	O
he	O
was	O
the	O
main	O
editor	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MusicEase	B-Application
Software	O
's	O
Christian	O
Virtual	O
Hymnal	O
15K	O
,	O
providing	O
transposable	O
,	O
customizable	O
sheet	O
music	O
for	O
over	O
15,000	O
public	O
domain	O
standard	O
notation	O
and	O
shape	O
note	O
hymns	O
is	O
leveraged	O
on	O
the	O
functionality	O
of	O
MusicEase	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
music	O
in	O
the	O
Christian	O
Virtual	O
Hymnal	O
15K	O
was	O
created	O
using	O
MusicEase	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Integrity	O
Music	O
,	O
a	O
major	O
publisher	O
of	O
praise-worship	O
music	O
,	O
used	O
this	O
functionality	O
of	O
MusicEase	B-Application
for	O
the	O
transposable	O
sheet	O
music	O
versions	O
of	O
many	O
of	O
its	O
products	O
:	O
e.g.	O
,	O
the	O
CD-Rom	O
versions	O
of	O
its	O
Hosanna	O
!	O
</s>
