THE SCORE
 

• Everything to do with creating and editing the score structure, and its instrumentation, has undergone a major overhaul, comprising a vast enhancement to the "look and feel" of the whole program.
   
•   Creating a new score with all features in place is now much easier.

 
• The list of available score templates is both more extensive and clearer.
   
• If instead you choose to create an instrumented score from scratch, a "wizard" guides you through the procedure:

• The same pages allow you to edit the score afterwards.
   
• Scores at Bb pitch are now supported, in addition to written pitch and concert pitch.
   
• A default set of stave labels with numbered parts can be chosen automatically at the press of a button.

INSTRUMENTS AND VOICES

• Instruments are now (by default) more tightly integrated with the score.
   
• Instrument changes within parts are now fully supported.
   
• Voice changes within parts are now supported eg arco<->pizzicato,  open<->mute
   
• Instruments now adopt a suitable default voice from the General MIDI set.  This is overridable.
   
• The instrument data base now includes many more instruments.
   
• An optimum system of General MIDI voices can be chosen automatically at the press of a button.

COMMAND INTERFACE

• The tie command is more versatile: for example press T at the end of the piece and the next note entered will be tied to the previous one.
   
• The dot commands are now more versatile.
   
• The new "auto-dot" feature allows very fast entry of common dotted note patterns in simple time and compound time.  The example on the right is just one possibility - the entire rhythm can be created with no reselection of note duration.
  
  
  
   
• Block selection can now be on a single strand, all strands, a single stave, or an arbitrary chosen set of strands.
   
• It is now even easier to play back an arbitrary chosen set of parts.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
• The Item-properties command allows rapid access to edit a wide variety of items.
   
• Keyboard access to many accent commands is more versatile.
   
• Text editing is more powerful:
  there are now short cuts for entering non-native characters in lyrics and elsewhere when using a keyboard designed for English (or any language using the Western character set).
  These follow Microsoft Word's convention - (eg Ctrl+'  then e  gives é; Ctrl+: then o gives ö,  etc.) - but also go beyond it.
   
• Lyric editing is more flexible:
  Ctrl+' ' enters a space without jumping under the next syllable.
  Ctrl+'-' enters a hyphen without jumping to the next syllable.
   

SYMBOL SUPPORT

• A pause (fermata) may now be put on a bar-line.
   
• "Relative tempo changes" are now supported  - eg crotchet=minim (see right).
  
  
  
   
• A variety of b13 and #11 chord symbols are now supported.

• Chord symbols can now be marked as silent, allowing rhythm parts to appear very simple while playing back quite intricately.
   
• Chord shapes are now possible for more instruments than just the guitar in standard tuning.  Chord shape dictionaries are provided for guitar and for ukulele in different tunings;  users can develop  their own dictionaries for other instruments.
   
• Chord shapes can be drawn without an accompanying chord symbol.
   
• Chord shapes may be drawn with all frets showing from the nut, or from the nearest appropriate fret.
   
• Dynamic entries now range from pppp, to ffff, and include fz, sf, sfz, sffz, fp, ffp.
   
• There is a larger set of text substitutions available, including long and abbreviated versions of strand labels, and time and date:
  eg &d -> date in short format - eg 04/12/05  (or 12/04/05 in the USA)
  &D -> date in long format - eg 04 December 2005  (or December 04 2005 in the USA)
  &h or &H -> time in 24 hr format  - eg 16:45.
  
• The breath mark symbol is now supported explicitly.

PAGE LAYOUT

• First line indentation is now supported.
   
• Different stave labels are now possible on the first and subsequent systems, with a choice of long label, abbreviated label, or none.
   
• Stave label text may now run to more than one line.
   
• The stave label font may now be chosen by the user.
   
• Pages can now begin with a number other than 1.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
• Chord symbols are now resizable relative to the notes (see eg right).
   
• Chord shapes are now resizable relative to the notes.
   
• The layout editor can now be used to edit the inner vertical space in a grand staff.
   
• Hiding staves: if you wish to omit staves from the score then it can now be accomplished much more effectively.

MISCELLANEOUS

• The status bar now shows more information.
  
   
• Right clicking on the stave offers a larger menu including general reformatting options.
   
• More sample music files are provided.
   
• More dialogues have graphic buttons.  Many of them now also have tool tips explaining the buttons (which can be switched off if desired).
   
• The Help Window is no longer always on top.
   
• mozart now maintains two independent sets of screen colours.  You can edit each, and select between the two sets.
   
• The background colour of the main frame window is now user-selectable.
   
• A command is provided to check the mozart web site for available updates.
  
  
  
   

LINGUISTIC

• This version of mozart makes a major step towards supporting languages other than English. Language plug-in modules can now be accepted, and updated, as translations become available.
  
  We will be asking for volunteers to help with the translation and making the plug-in modules available free of charge.  In this way the English menus and dialogues can be replaced by translations into other languages