Release notes for Mozart 17

The improvement history for Mozart 17
 

 

Mozart 17 version 17.0.6

January 2026

  • When creating a new text box on he score, and then defining Instrumental Parts, the new box was not automatically appearing correctly on the parts. This is now fixed.
    [MZ17-2511-TXPOS]
  • Adding a picture text box could sometimes cause problems with textbox drawing. This is now fixed. [MZ17-2511-PIC] [MZ17-2511-PICX]
  • Sometimes the text substitution for &N, for an empty label, was showing "<label>" on the print-out. This should not have been happening and is now fixed. [MZ17-2511-SUBST]
  • Thanks to Denton Barcroft for finding that time signatures were sometimes disappearing when separating strands onto different staves. This is now fixed. [MZ17-2511-SEP]
  • When using the command (Symbol/Edit/Copy) to copy an item in one strand to parallel strands, the default ‘hide property’ is automatically set according to the class of item being copied. For text items this has now been reset so that the copies have the same hide property as the source item. So if you’re setting (eg) a tempo at the start (eg ‘Allegro’) you can set it to be shown only in the first strand above the music,and copy it to all parts. In that way it will only appear once on the score, but will also automatically appear on each Instrumental Part. [MZ17-2512-MIRROR]
  • Thanks to Richard Mills and Claude Tallet for finding occasions where hairpins could be ‘doubled’. We haven’t thus far been able to discover where this is happening, but have updated the fix-up command (Ctrl+F5) so that it removes unwanted duplicate hairpins. [MZ17-2512-HAIRPIN]
  • A miscellaneous MIDI bar counting analysis has been fixed, though this almost certainly had no effect on Mozart’s results. [MZ17-2512-MIDIBAR]
  • Thanks to Oonagh Griffith for reporting a problem with a slightly corrupted file. This one was fixed with Ctrl+F5 but that command is poor at actually telling you what it has fixed. So this after this service pack, we’ve arranged that it will say a bit more, though the info is still incomplete. [MZ17-2512-DECORRUPT]
  • The “auto-generate” mechanism for Instrumental Parts has been updated s that it is less likely to suggest empty part names in peculiar cases. [MZ17-2512-MUSPART]
  • Thanks to Clive Longhurst for finding a situation in which Mozart did not play back cresc and dim correctly. This should now be OK. [MZ17-2512-PLAY]

Mozart 17 version 17.0.5

November 2025

  • Thanks to Bob Hannum and Lindsay Lorden for exposing a disconnect between the Music Font dialogue box and its help page. This is now fixed.
  • Thanks to Tony Caporn for noticing that when entering a harmony note and not moving forward (Ctrl+Spacebar) the focus was not being left on the newly entered note (thus i.a. making entering accidental more awkward than necessary). This is now fixed.
    [MZ17-2511-FOCUS]
  • Using the View:Switch command on the Parts tab to switch from viewing one Instrumental Part to another in a given window, was sometimes losing the caret. This is now fixed, and the caret appears in approximately the same place in the music as where it was. [MZ17-2511-CARET]
  • An infelicity in creating new text boxes on the page has been fixed. [MZ17-2511-TEXTBOX]

Mozart 17 version 17.0.4

October 2025

  • New feature: following a request, it is now possible to choose between alternative styles for a breve (double whole note). The style applies to a whole piece.
  • Following a recent question to the Mozart chat group, the help system now contains a topic on exporting PDF files.
  • Turning a rest into a tuplet left the tuplet digit at an undesirable vertical position. This is now fixed. [MZ17-2509-TUPLET]
  • Thanks to Jack Crawford for finding that pasting lyric lines was not working correctly when allowing for melisma. This is now fixed. It turns out that it was also failing to expand the spacing to allow for pasting long syllables. This too is fixed. [MZ17-2509-PASTE]
  • Thanks also to Richard Mills for highlighting another problem with the PasteLyrics command. This is also now fixed. [MZ17-2510-LYRICS]
  • Thanks also to Richard for highlighting a problem, which is apparently caused by having Instrumental Parts defined in the absence of a conductor stave. This is inconsistent, and after some modifications, henceforth it will be harder to get into that situation. [MZ17-2510-CONDUCT]
  • Thanks to Miriam Leman for noticing that the piano tool remained on top of other windows when Mozart was no longer active and on top. Research revealed that this had been the case and gone unremarked since Mozart 13 (though not in 12). It is now fixed in Mozart 17.
  • The SaveAs command has been updated so that it no longer always preserves default file names for exports (.mid, .mp3, .xml, etc). Thanks to Richard Mills for suggesting this. [MZ17-2509-SAVEAS]
  • The command to align items vertically (Symbol/Edit/Align) was not working properly on discrete dynamics and sforzandi. This is now fixed. [MZ17-2509-DYN]
  • Thanks to Joseph de Charentenay for finding that tempo changes on the 2nd time through a repeated section were being ignored. This is now fixed. [MZ17-2509-TEMPO]
  • Importing some MIDI files was missing some time signature and tempo changes. This has been a long-standing infelicity which has until now gone unnoticed, but it is now fixed. [MZ17-2510-MIDI]
  • It turns out that very early versions of Mozart (Mozart 7 in the case discovered) could occasionally save files with inconsistent clef data, which they then worked around when reading the file. But this was causing problems for Mozart 17, which has now been amended to correct the problem automatically. [MZ17-2510-CLEF]
  • Thanks to Bob Hannum for reporting a problem with misdrawn stave lines on a final line which does not extend to the right margin. A subtle one but now fixed. [MZ17-2510-STAVEWIDTH]
  • The table in the dialogue for defining Instrumental Parts was not always maintaining its size correctly. This is now fixed. [MZ17-2510-DLG]

Mozart 17 version 17.0.3

August 2025

  • Thanks to Lindsay Lorden for reported a formatting ‘oddity’ when deleting space, and to Wayne Schmus for finding a related problem. This was happening at quite a deep level where it could have affected other operations, but is now fixed. [MZ17-2508-LYRICMAP][MZ17-2508-LEFTLIST]
  • Thanks to Clive Longhurst for finding a problem with spurious clefs being added, and then being difficult to delete. They are now easier to delete. [MZ17-2508-CLEF]
  • Thanks also to Clive for reporting problems changing trumpet MIDI voicing from unmuted to muted and back. This should now be fixed too. [MZ17-2508-CLEFINST]
  • In panoramic mode, the staff was sometimes being drawn too short at the right hand extremity. This is now fixed. [MZ17-2508-END]

Mozart 17 version 17.0.2

August 2025

  • In instrumental parts containing more than one stave, the staves were constrained to be in the same order vertically as in the score. This was not the objective and this unintentional constraint is now relaxed. [MZ17-2507-STAVEORDER]
  • MIDI file import has been improved for the case where a piece starting with an anacrusis also contains key- or time-signature-changes. (This combination allows a better educated guess as to where bar lines should go!) [MZ17-2507-MIDIANACRUSIS]
  • In some cases, copying two or more bars containing all strands, and then pasting at the end of the piece caused severe problems. We hadn’t found any such cases ourselves but thanks to Miriam Leman for finding one and providing it for analysis. This has enabled us to fix the problem. [MZ17-250?-PASTEBUG]

Mozart 17 version 17.0.1

June 2025

  • Thanks to Keith Long and Tony Caporn for reporting a failure of “auto-dotting”. This is now fixed. [MZ17-2506-AUTODOT]
  • Thanks to Tony Caporn for finding that courtesy accidentals were not being shown in parentheses when desired. This is now fixed. [MZ17-2506-PARENTHESES]
  • Thanks to Clive Lonhghurst for reporting poblems combining two staves into one. This is now also fixed. [MZ17-2506-STAVESCOMBINE]
  • A glitch drawing bar numbers in the neighbourhood of multiple bars rests has now been fixed. [MZ17-2506-BARNUMBER]
  • The tutorial file accompanying Mozart 17:the tutorial for Mozart 16 was inadvertently installed. This was an oversight. This is now replaced by the tutorial for Mozart 17 which introduces recent developments in the Score and Parts.
    [Note: In order to complete the update, it may be necessary to go to "Trouble shooting-Interface" on Mozart's Help tab and update using the "Refresh tutorial files" option.]

MOZART 17

June 2025

Mozart 17 released with the following new features.

(See "New in Mozart 17" for illustrations.)

  • Score and Parts linked in a single music document
  • Music without key signatures
  • Instrument range indication
  • Music range indication
  • Cue staves
  • 15ma
  • Accidentals above notes
  • Clef changes
  • Rehearsal marks: more styles
  • Panoramic view improvements
  • Annotations
  • Paste Special
  • System spacing
  • Dynamics on playback are more flexible
  • Figured bass (basso continuo)
  • Vertical alignment of dynamics etc across the page

 

 

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