New in Mozart 7
Mozart 7 was released in April 2003.
It introduced the following new features.
Please note: the music images on this page were created with Mozart 7. The quality of engraving provided by the current version is much improved in many respects.
Guitar chord symbols
- Explicit bass notes may now be included in chord names - eg G7/B or G7/A - and are respected on play-back. The indicated bass note may be part of the chord or not.
- Chord shape diagrams are now supported for guitar.
- An extensive guitar chord shape dictionary is included.
- Custom chord shapes, which are not in the main dictionary, may be defined and stored in an integrated custom dictionary.
Repeated accidentals
- Accidentals are no longer compulsory on notes at a different octave from one which has appeared earlier in the bar, but courtesy accidentals are suggested in this case.
Key signatures and transposition
- Key signature changes may now be optionally introduced (with a single command) without changing the pitch of existing music following the change.
- This allows, for example, traditional french horn, and other modern, parts notated in C-major with accidentals in the music.
- It also allows convenient post-processing of MIDI imports where the MIDI file has neglected to include key signature information.
Multiple bars rest
- The length of multiple bars rest symbol is now much more flexible. You can now get any number of bars rest on one line.
- A multiple bars rest can now be added in pieces with more than one strand, as long as all parallel strands have rests.
- There are no longer non-printing control items indicating the beginning and end of a multiple bars rest, making the screen view even more WYSIWYG.
NIFF import and scanning music
- Import of NIFF files (Notation Interchange File Format) is now supported. NIFF is a standard file type which (unlike MIDI) stores notation formatting information.
- Import of scanned-in music is thus now possible from any third party music scanning software (such as the SharpEye scanner at http://www.visiv.co.uk ) which can output in the standard NIFF format. (Like MOZART, some scanning programs offer freely downloadable evaluation versions.)
Grand staff
- The two 5-line staves which constitute a "grand staff" in (eg) piano parts are now much more tightly interconnected.
- Quavers (8th notes) and shorter may be beamed in runs from one stave to the other.
- Note stems may join notes on the two staves.
Symbols
- Five more clefs, used in music up to the 18th
century, are now available (making 9 in all plus octave variants).
- Tremolo notation is now fully supported.
- Two bar repeat signs are now fully supported
- Glissando markings are now supported.
- The font used for rehearsal marks is now fully configurable.
Overview
- A new "minimal" font size has been introduced as an option on the the screen allowing a better overview - for example during play-back.
Play-back
- 8va and 8vb are now supported and respected on play-back.
- The trill speed can now be selected for MIDI play-back of trills and mordents.
- The play-back duration of a single acciaccatura is now user-selectable.
- Play-back in a repeated section can now be sounded on the second time only
- Play-back now respects piano pedal markings.
- Play-back of a swung piece may now include sections played straight
- Play-back can now be directed to a given MIDI device from within MOZART's global preferences, rather than having to do it via the control panel.
- Chord shapes play back in the inversion defined by the fingerboard diagram.
User interface
- Drag and drop is introduced for importable formats (eg .mid).
- Graphic images of your music may now be saved directly as files (in a wide variety of formats).
- Copying screen images to the clipboard may now be done much more easily without including the false colours and unprintable characters usually used in the screen itself.
- There is much more control over bitmap resolution when copying images to the clipboard, making it much easier to incorporate pages or snippets of music into word processor documents.
- The PrintSetup and PageFormat commands are improved making it much simpler to choose a different printer or switch between Portrait and Landscape formats.
- The status bar now shows the current part and stave name.
- There are separate commands which send the caret to the next/previous note and the next/previous note or rest.