Create real engraved French horn sheet music, write melodies or two-part French horn music, and hear your composition performed with a French horn sound using the open-source abcjs notation engine.
Song Information
1. Write Your Music
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2. Professional Sheet Music
My First WKRD Song
The notation engine is loading. Your sheet music will appear here automatically.
3. Listen to Your Music — French Horn
The audio controls will appear after you press Create / Update.
Playback uses actual French horn SoundFont samples (Musyng Kite) for a brass-style horn performance. Browsers require a click before audio can be prepared. The first preparation can take a little longer while the horn samples load.
NotesC D E F G A B c Lowercase letters move one octave higher.
Note LengthC2, C4, C/2 Numbers make notes longer or shorter.
Chord Names"C"C Puts a chord symbol above a note.
MeasuresC D E F | The vertical line ends a measure.
Directions
1. Add the Song Information
Enter the song title, composer, and writer names. The title and composer are passed into the professional notation engine automatically, while the writer names stay visible above the score.
2. Choose the French Horn Layout
Melody / Single Staff is best for a solo French horn melody or lead line. French Horn / Two-Part Staff gives you separate French Horn 1 and French Horn 2 boxes and creates two connected staffs for a horn duet or layered arrangement.
3. Write the Notes
C D E F G A B are normal notes.
c d e f g a b are one octave higher.
C, moves a note lower and c' moves a high note higher.
z creates a rest.
| ends a measure.
C2 doubles a note length; C/2 halves it.
^C is C-sharp, _B is B-flat, and =C is C-natural.
Use brackets for notes played together, such as [CEG].
Use parentheses for slurs, such as (CDEF).
Use a dash for a tie, such as C2-C2.
4. Add Chord Symbols
Put the chord name inside quotation marks immediately before the note: "C"C D E F | "G"G A B c |.
5. Create the Music
Press Create / Update Sheet Music & Audio. The score is engraved by the real abcjs notation engine. The same click also prepares the audio player, which satisfies modern browser audio-security rules.
6. Hear the Song
Use the player below the score. The melody voices are played with a French horn sound. The player includes playback, restart, progress, and tempo controls. If you change the notes, press Create / Update again before playing the new version.
7. Classical French Horn
Choose French Horn / Two-Part Staff, or press Load Classical French Horn Example. French Horn 1 appears on the upper staff and French Horn 2 appears on the lower staff.
8. Save Your Work
Press Save Music Code to download the title, composer, writers, settings, and notes you entered. Press Save Audio to download the currently prepared performance as a WAV audio file.
If there is ever a loading problem: the status box above shows exactly whether the notation engine, engraving, or audio failed. This page contains its own abcjs loader and automatically tries several engine sources instead of depending on a separate loader file.