Mozart the music processor

Mozart the music processor
	Mozart logo
Original author(s)	David Webber
Initial release	9 November 1994
Operating system	MS Windows XP/Vista/7/8
Available in	EN, CS, CY, DE, ES, FR, IT, NL, SV, ZH
Type	Scorewriter
License	Commercial
Website	www.mozart.co.uk

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.

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,^[1] 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^[2]
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

Review of Mozart 10

^ NIFF – History, features, programs supporting NIFF
^ Toal, Lawrence (21 January 2010). "WineHQ – Mozart the Music Processor Mozart 10". Wine HQ. Retrieved 26 January 2010.

External links

[1] NIFF – History, features, programs supporting NIFF

[2] Toal, Lawrence (21 January 2010). "WineHQ – Mozart the Music Processor Mozart 10". Wine HQ. Retrieved 26 January 2010.

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