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Mozart the music processor

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Original author(s)
  
David Webber

Development status
  
Active

Initial release
  
9 November 1994

Mozart the music processor

Stable release
  
13.0.10 (6 May 2016; 10 months ago (2016-05-06)) [±]

Operating system
  
MS Windows XP/Vista/7/8

Available in
  
EN, CS, CY, DE, ES, FR, IT, NL, SV, ZH

Mozart the music processor is a proprietary WYSIWYG scorewriter, written by David Webber. It enables computers using Microsoft Windows to produce musical notation and listen to them in MIDI.

Contents

History

Mozart started as a personal project to assist the author in arranging music for the groups in which he played. Version 1 was released on 9 November 1994. A new major version is released about every 18 months. Intermediate service packs are issued as needed.

Features

  • Score entry by computer keyboard, mouse, on-screen piano keyboard, external MIDI instrument
  • Large library of predefined templates
  • Support for a large collection of transposing instruments
  • Large library of stringed instruments for chords
  • Support for a large number of plucked string instruments (i.a. banjo, ukulele, tamburitza) in various tunings
  • Score can be shown in concert pitch, written pitch, B♭ pitch
  • Optional courtesy accidentals
  • Key signature change with optional cancelling naturals
  • Free application of enharmonic equivalents (, ♭, ♮, ♯, )
  • Transposable guitar chords
  • Use of third party music symbol fonts, e.g. NorMusic JazzFont
  • All text items support Unicode characters
  • Keyboard shortcuts for accented characters and symbols
  • Customisable mapping of keyboard shortcuts
  • Programmable through macros
  • Import MusicXML, NIFF, MIDI (.MID, .RMI, .KAR)
  • MIDI export
  • Multi-language (currently EN, CS, CY, DE, ES, FR, IT, NL, SV, ZH), including support for languages with irregular plurals, e.g. in Welsh or Czech; the names of notes also in DE
  • Part extraction
  • Lyrics attached to notes
  • Text boxes
  • Extensive, context-sensitive Help system
  • Playback, optionally with tracking cursor
  • Playback follows repeats and redirections
  • Playback obeys dynamics, pedal marks, phrasing, rubato, and articulation including tremolo and reiteration
  • Optional automatic right justification
  • Cross- and diamond-shaped note heads, cue notes
  • Tablature notation for guitars and lutes
  • Copy bitmaps to the Windows clipboard
  • Gold-certified to run under Wine-1.1.36 on Slackware Linux 12.1
  • Support for foot pedal page turners

    • Shortcomings

  • Limited control over MIDI events
  • Score must have a time signature, common to all parallel staves
  • Key signatures are restricted to 7 accidentals; no F-flat major/D-flat minor or G-sharp major/E-sharp minor
  • No Gregorian chant notation
  • No quarter tone notation

    • References

    Mozart the music processor Wikipedia
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