Mozart the music processor

Mozart the music processor

Original author(s)	David Webber
Initial release	9 November 1994
Stable release	11.0.3  (21 November 2011; 1 day ago (2011-11-21)) [+/−]
Development status	Active
Operating system	MS Windows XP/Vista/7
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
• 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 staves.
• All staves must have the same key signature.
• 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

Free versions

• Free viewer/player/printer; evaluation version

See also

• Music engraving
• Scorewriter

References

• Review

1. ^ NIFF – History, features, programs supporting NIFF
2. ^ Toal, Lawrence (21 January 2010). "WineHQ – Mozart the Music Processor Mozart 10". Wine HQ. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2558. Retrieved 26 January 2010. 

External links

• Mozart program homepage
• About the author (David Webber)