
Sibelius
DaCapo Editor
NtEd
LilyPond
ABCexplorer
MusiCAD
tonica fugata
Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology.

SourceForge.net: ShellNewHandler details page
Which is more popular?
Based on our record, music21 should be more popular than ShellNewHandler. It has been mentioned 13 times since March 2021.
Website, pricing, platforms and company facts side by side.
|
|
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | web.mit.edu | sourceforge.net |
| Pricing | — | |
| Listed in |
What each product offers, as listed by its team.


Possible disadvantages
No features have been listed yet.
An editorial look at what each product does well and who it suits.


No analysis of music21 yet.
Overall verdict
Why this product is good
Recommended for
How often each product is chosen within a category, 0–100% relative to the other.


Share your experience with using music21 and ShellNewHandler. For example, how are they different and which one is better?
Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.


I chose Python as a programming language here because, as you could probably guess, there are myriads of libraries in Python for working with music. I found mingus to be the simplest for working with guitar chords and music21 for... - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago
If you are interested in doing anything with Python, be sure to check out Music21, which has a lot of cool features — including doing twelve-tone matrix stuff like this — built-in. Source: over 3 years ago
Http://web.mit.edu/music21/ Music21 documentation. Source: over 3 years ago
Use Shell New Handler. Run the portable app and simply untick the items you don't want to appear in your new context menu. Source: about 4 years ago
I've always used ShellNewHandler for this. It's a really simple portable utility that allows you to remove most of the items from that menu. Tested it out on Windows 11 and it's still compatible. Source: over 5 years ago
When comparing music21 and ShellNewHandler, you can also consider the following products.

Sibelius is a virtual score creation tool which allows composers to easily create new piano scores, developed by Avid.
Compare Sibelius to music21 or ShellNewHandler:

DaCapo Editor is a free Open Source music sheet editor which allows to easily create nice looking partitions. It is available as a web application as well as a desktop application for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Compare DaCapo Editor to music21 or ShellNewHandler:


GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving.
Compare LilyPond to music21 or ShellNewHandler:

ABCexplorer is a musical creation utility that comes with advanced support to create, edit, play, convert and manage musical files with ABC text format support.
Compare ABCexplorer to music21 or ShellNewHandler:

MusiCAD is a score writer and music notation program that provides great ability to music creators to produce high-quality music sheets, create music, extract parts from scores with chord symbols, and provide complete MIDI synchronizing.
Compare MusiCAD to music21 or ShellNewHandler: