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Music Blocks

A collection of tools for exploring fundamental musical concepts in a fun way.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Music Blocks is a programming language, available on Linux.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Music Blocks is a programming language and collection of manipulative tools for exploring musical and mathematical concepts in an integrative and fun way.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Music Blocks is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (AGPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians” – Monk “Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.” ~ Leibniz Music Blocks is a programming language and collection of manipulative tools for exploring musical and mathematical concepts in an integrative and fun way.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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