New in Mozart 14

Note spacing - global override

You can subtly adjust the global note-spacing for a piece, demanding denser or sparser music spacing.  For example:

Note spacing - local override

Spacing between individual notes and bar lines can be modified, but our objective is to make this necessary as rarely as possible.

One occasion where this may be desirable is to make room for annotations on the stave - for example:

Note spacing on entering music

Mozart maintains its optimum note spacing as you enter music.

Caret movement options

Horizontal movement of the caret with the arrow keys is now more flexible. There are three options:

	Fine:	On each key press the caret moves by 1/8 of a note width;
	Coarse:	On each key press the caret moves by 1 note width;
	Quick:	The caret moves from an item, halfway to the next, or from between items to the next item.

With the automatic note spacing, the 'Quick' option is particularly useful.

Split inner beams

Large groups of very short notes are now created with split inner beams, with the pattern recommended in the literature.*

(The default patterns are overridable.)

Arpeggiated chords

Arpeggiated chords can now be drawn with or without an arrow head on the arpeggiation symbol.

Rendering of hairpins

The rendering of 'hairpins' across line breaks is improved.*

(The open end at the start of the second line indicates a continuation.)

Keyboard Interface

All of Mozart's traditional standard keyboard shortcuts have been retained. Mozartists can type music just as you always did!

'Alt' chords

Altered chords containing chromatic 9ths and 5ths may now simply be labelled 'Alt'

This can be ambiguously applied to a number of chords, but Mozart remembers the actual notes for play-back.

Chord name format

Chord names may be formatted in-line:

or with the chord type as a superscript:

Undo

The Undo command (Ctrl+Z) now undoes only a single operation. This makes all previous states of the music re-obtainable. There are more 'levels of undo' than you will ever need.

[In the early days of Mozart, back in 1994, this would have run up against the then limits of computer memory.  Therefore a 'smart' version of undo was devised which undid consecutive sequences of similar commands.  With the rapid expansion of memory in recent years, this constraint has ceased to apply, and so the new, less smart, but more powerful, brute force 'undo-each-command-one-at-a-time' method is long overdue.]

Paste

The Paste operation (Ctrl+V) no longer requires the target bars to be empty of music.  It just overwrites existing music.

If, heaven forfend, you make a mistake, the new, more powerful Undo command will get you out of it!

Pasting lyric lines

Lyric lines can now be pasted under existing notes with a form of  "Paste Special"  command.

This can overwrite existing lyric sylables but the command is easily undone with Ctrl+Z.

The text to be pasted can be put on the clipboard by copying a passage from a Mozart piece with lyrics, or by copying from a text application.

Deleting lyric sylables

Lyric syllables may now be deleted en masse from a lyric line leaving the notes to which they're attached unchanged.

Thus for example, text from one or more lyric lines can be removed from a section of a piece, quickly and efficiently!

Again, any mistakes are readily undone with Ctrl+Z

Tempo changes

Tempo changes no longer have to occur between notes

Correct play-back is arranged by an (invisible) conductor.

Accidental placement

The accidental placement for complex chords has been improved, consistent with guidelines in the literature*.

In "simple" cases there should be little change, but here's a more complicated example:

Trills, tremoli, reiterations

Trills, tremoli, and notes with strokes through the tail, now, when they are under a crescendo or dimenuendo, respect the changing dynamic on play-back.

A trill 'squiggle' now correctly* extends to the duration of the note.

Go to Rehearsal Mark

A 'go to rehearsal mark command' provides a new companion to the old 'go to bar' command.