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Mozart (software)
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Mozart the music processor is a proprietary
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scorewriter
, written by David Webber. It enables computers using Microsoft Windows
to produce musical notation
and listen to them in MIDI.
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...
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WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...
scorewriter
Scorewriter
A scorewriter, or music notation program, is software used for creating sheet music.A scorewriter is to music notation what a word processor is to text.-Comparison with multitrack sequencer software:...
, written by David Webber. It enables computers using Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
to produce musical notation
Musical notation
Music notation or musical notation is any system that represents aurally perceived music, through the use of written symbols.-History:...
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 instrumentPlucked string instrumentPlucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing the string in such as way as to give it an impulse that causes the string to vibrate...
s (i.a. banjoBanjoIn the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
, ukuleleUkuleleThe ukulele, ; from ; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings....
, tamburitza) in various tuningsGuitar tuningsGuitar tunings almost always refers to the pitch of the open string, though some tunings may only realistically be attained by the use of a capo on an unmodified instrument.... - Score can be shown in concert pitch, written pitch, B pitch
- Optional courtesy accidentalsAccidental (music)In music, an accidental is a note whose pitch is not a member of a scale or mode indicated by the most recently applied key signature. In musical notation, the symbols used to mark such notes, sharps , flats , and naturals , may also be called accidentals...
- Key signatureKey signatureIn musical notation, a key signature is a series of sharp or flat symbols placed on the staff, designating notes that are to be consistently played one semitone higher or lower than the equivalent natural notes unless otherwise altered with an accidental...
change with optional cancelling naturalsNatural (music)In music theory, a natural is an accidental which cancels previous accidentals and represents the unaltered pitch of a note.A note is natural when it is neither flat nor sharp . Natural notes are the notes A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, and are represented by the white notes on the keyboard of a piano... - Free application of enharmonicEnharmonicIn modern musical notation and tuning, an enharmonic equivalent is a note , interval , or key signature which is equivalent to some other note, interval, or key signature, but "spelled", or named, differently...
equivalents - TransposableTransposition (music)In music transposition refers to the process, or operation, of moving a collection of notes up or down in pitch by a constant interval.For example, one might transpose an entire piece of music into another key...
guitar chordGuitar chordIn music, a guitar chord is a chord, or collection of tones usually sounded together at once, played on a guitar. It can be composed of notes played on adjacent or separate strings or all the strings together...
s - Use of third party music symbol fonts, e.g. NorMusic JazzFont
- All text items support UnicodeUnicodeUnicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
characters - Keyboard shortcutKeyboard shortcutIn computing, a keyboard shortcut is a finite set of one or more keys that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered by the user. A meaning of term "keyboard shortcut" can vary depending on software manufacturer...
s for accented characters and symbols - Customisable mapping of keyboard shortcuts
- Programmable through macros
- Import MusicXMLMusicXMLMusicXML is an open, XML-based music notation file format.It was developed by Recordare LLC, deriving several key concepts from existing academic formats . It is designed for the interchange of scores, particularly between different scorewriters.Version 1.0 was released in January 2004...
, 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 pluralPluralIn linguistics, plurality or [a] plural is a concept of quantity representing a value of more-than-one. Typically applied to nouns, a plural word or marker is used to distinguish a value other than the default quantity of a noun, which is typically one...
s, e.g. in WelshWelsh numeralsThe traditional counting system used in the Welsh language is vigesimal, i.e. based on twenties, as in the French numerals for 60-99, where numbers from 11–14 are "x on ten", 16–19 are "x on fifteen" ; numbers from 21–39 are "1–19 on twenty", 40 is "two twenty", 60 is "three twenty", etc.There is...
or Czech; the names of noteNoteIn music, the term note has two primary meanings:#A sign used in musical notation to represent the relative duration and pitch of a sound;#A pitched sound itself....
s 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 dynamicsDynamics (music)In music, dynamics normally refers to the volume of a sound or note, but can also refer to every aspect of the execution of a given piece, either stylistic or functional . The term is also applied to the written or printed musical notation used to indicate dynamics...
, pedal marksPiano pedalsPiano pedals are foot-operated levers at the base of a piano which change the instrument's sound in various ways. Modern pianos usually have three pedals, from left to right, the soft pedal , the sostenuto pedal , and the sustaining pedal...
, phrasingTie (music)In music notation, a tie is a curved line connecting the heads of two notes of the same pitch, indicating that they are to be played as a single note with a duration equal to the sum of the individual notes' note values...
, rubatoTempo rubatoTempo rubato is a musical term referring to expressive and rhythmic freedom by a slight speeding up and then slowing down of the tempo of a piece at the discretion of the soloist or the conductor...
, and articulationArticulation (music)In music, articulation refers to the musical direction performance technique which affects the transition or continuity on a single note or between multiple notes or sounds.- Types of articulations :...
including tremoloTremoloTremolo, or tremolando, is a musical term that describes various trembling effects, falling roughly into two types. The first is a rapid reiteration...
and reiteration - Optional automatic right justification
- Cross and diamond shaped note headNote headIn music, a note head is the elliptical part of a note. Noteheads may be coloured completely black or white, indicating the note value . In a whole note, the note head is the only component of the note. Shorter note values attach a stem to the note head, and possibly beams or flags...
s, cue notes - TablatureTablatureTablature is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering rather than musical pitches....
notation for guitars and luteLuteLute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes....
s - Copy bitmaps to the Windows clipboardClipboard (software)The clipboard is a software facility that can be used for short-term data storage and/or data transfer between documents or applications, via copy and paste operations...
- Gold-certified to run under WineWine (software)Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like...
-1.1.36 on SlackwareSlackwareSlackware is a free and open source Linux-based operating system. It was one of the earliest operating systems to be built on top of the Linux kernel and is the oldest currently being maintained. Slackware was created by Patrick Volkerding of Slackware Linux, Inc. in 1993...
LinuxLinuxLinux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
12.1 - Support for foot pedal page turners
Shortcomings
- Limited control over MIDI events
- Score must have a time signatureTime signatureThe time signature is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each measure and which note value constitutes one beat....
, common to all staves. - All staves must have the same key signatureKey signatureIn musical notation, a key signature is a series of sharp or flat symbols placed on the staff, designating notes that are to be consistently played one semitone higher or lower than the equivalent natural notes unless otherwise altered with an accidental...
. - Key signatures are restricted to 7 accidentals; no F-flat majorF-flat majorF-flat major is a major scale based on F-flat, consisting of the pitches F, G, A, B, C, D, E and F. Its key signature has eight flats.Its relative minor is D-flat minor, and its parallel minor is F-flat minor, usually replaced by E minor....
/D-flat minorD-flat minorD-flat minor is a theoretical key based on the musical note D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B, C and D. Its key signature has seven flats and one double flat.Verdi's opera La Traviata, unusually, ends very decisively in D minor...
or G-sharp major/E-sharp minor - No Gregorian chantGregorian chantGregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services...
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