New in Mozart 6
Mozart 6 was released in October 2001.
It introduced the following new features.
Please note: the music images on this page were created with Mozart 6. The quality of engraving provided by the current version is much improved in many respects.
Lyrics
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Rapid lyric entry with automatic alignment: just type the words under the music and let Mozart worry about
aligning them with the notes. It is seriously fast!
- Lyric hyphen and underbar placement is automatic, and allows for words sustained over two or more notes.
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Percussion instruments of indefinite pitch
- Percussion instruments of indefinite pitch
are now very easy to use with very flexible play-back (using General MIDI assignments):
write a percussion part on a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 line stave with any instrument on any
line or space.
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The percussion clef is shown on staves for indefinite pitch percussion parts.
- The collection of percussion instruments
used on any stave may be saved in Mozart percussion files (.mzp) for
rapid redeployment in other pieces.
- A typical drumkit .mzp file is included with Mozart's templates.
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Chord symbols
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Chord symbols (G7 C#9 etc) are now supported.
They transpose automatically with the music, and play back if desired
- Chord symbol styles are configurable - for example you may choose from C? or Cdim, and from E+ or Eaug, and there are many other commonly encountered options.
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Ornaments
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Grace notes are now available in arbitrarily large
beamed groups, with adjustable play-back on or before the beat as desired.
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Appoggiatura and Acciaccatura are
both fully supported.
- The chord arpeggiation symbol is now supported.
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Line breaks
- Hard line breaks can be used to force continuation of the music on a new line.
- Hard music breaks can be used to force a restart of the music on a new line.
Annotation
- Automatic bar numbering is now supported.
You can choose to number bars: at the start of each line; every so many bars;
or manually as in earlier versions.
- Bar numbering may be started at any
specified value for the first bar.
- Rehearsal marks are now fully supported,
and maintain their order automatically.
- Header and footer text can now include automatic references to the title of the piece.
Bar lines and clefs
Extra bar lines can be inserted in a more flexible way - automatically splitting any long notes in parallel parts.
Clef changes can be inserted in a more flexible way - automatically splitting any long notes in parallel parts on the same stave.
Clefs may now be automatically annotated with a
subscript or superscript "8"
where appropriate.
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Greater editing flexibility
- Time signatures are now editable anywhere
in the music (both the initial time signature and time signature changes).
- Inserting a passage of bars can now be done
such that the new passage is in any time signature.
- Individual beats of any length may be
inserted and deleted moving subsequent music right or left relative to the bar lines.
- Automatic timed back-ups are now made to protect against losing data in a system crash.
Play-back
- New features including chord symbols,
unpitched percussion, grace notes (including appoggiatura) all have full play-back
support.
- Parts or sections of parts can be marked as silent on playback.
Documentation
- Did you ever wonder what an augmented 4th was but were too
shy to ask? The on-line help now includes a detailed explanation of this and all
other musical intervals.
- The on-line help now includes a detailed explanation of the
naming of chords from C and G7 to (eg) D7+
and E11#9 and beyond.
- The printed tutorial manual and on-line help documentation are now both available on the Mozart CD in PDF format (with the latest PDF reader from Adobe in case you need it).
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