Imitazioni is a professional music composition tool designed for desktop use.
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Imitazioni is a tool for musicians to create interesting and harmonically consistent repetitive structures in their compositions.
Transform any melody into a contrapuntal canon — a musical form where voices enter at different times, each derived from the original melody through transformations like transposition, inversion, retrograde, and time scaling.
Import a tune, configure how each voice transforms the melody, and instantly hear the results. The auto mode uses beam search to find harmonically pleasing voice combinations. Export your creation as MusicXML for use in any notation software.
Import a melody, generate canons, play and export — no install needed.
Already have an Imitazioni file?
Install the plugin and work inside MuseScore 3.
Use Imitazioni directly inside MuseScore 3. Generate canons, repeat voices, create piano reductions, and regenerate — all without leaving your notation software.
The plugin adds a dock panel with four buttons. Each opens the full Imitazioni configuration interface. Results are automatically imported back into MuseScore as a new score tab.
imitazioni-musescore-plugin/ folder to your MuseScore plugins directory:
~/Documents/MuseScore3/Plugins/%HOMEPATH%\Documents\MuseScore3\Plugins\~/Documents/MuseScore3/Plugins/The plugin talks to the hosted Imitazioni backend at imitazioni.com — no local server setup required. For local development, edit backendUrl in Imitazioni.qml (see the plugin README).