
       

                Mup - Music Publication Program Highlights

       1.  The Mup Music Publication program

       Mup  is  a  free,  yet  very  feature rich music publication
       program.  Mup Version 6.4 is now available in source form as
       well as ready-to-run for MS-DOS/Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
       x86.

       Music is described by a text file that you can create  using
       your  favorite  editor or the included Mupmate program.  Mup
       then determines how to lay  out  the  music,  and  generates
       PostScript  output  for  displaying or printing it.  It is a
       powerful and flexible program, which has been used  on  many
       thousands  of  songs  in  a  wide  variety  of  styles, both
       instrumental and vocal.

       Mup's features include:

         -- Up to 40 staffs, which can include 1-line, 5-line,  and
            tablature  staffs.   Output  can  be  restricted to any
            subset  of  the  staffs.   Different  staffs   can   be
            different sizes.

         -- Up  to  3  independent  voices  per  staff,  up  to  70
            simultaneous notes per voice.

         -- Double whole to 256th notes, with any number  of  dots.
            Tuplets.

         -- Note  styles  of  normal,  grace, cue, X, diamond, plus
            shaped notes.  Up to 4 accidentals per note,  including
            custom  accidentals.  Optional parentheses around notes
            and/or accidentals.

         -- Cross-staff stems.

         -- Time signatures of cut, common, or numerators from 1 to
            99  and  denominators  from  1 to 64.  Complicated time
            signatures,  including  numerators  with  two  or  more
            numbers  added together, or two or more fractions added
            together, or alternating time signatures.

         -- All standard clefs, including treble, treble8, 8treble,
            French  violin,  soprano,  mezzosoprano,  alto,  tenor,
            baritone, bass, bass8, 8bass, and subbass, as  well  as
            the  drum  (neutral) clef.  Clefs can be changed in the
            middle of measures.

         -- Barline styles of single, double, dashed, dotted,  end,
            repeats, or none.

         -- 8th  note  and  shorter  notes can have either flags or
            beams; beams can be cross-staff.

         -- Guitar grids

         -- Lyrics can be placed above, below, or  between  staffs.
            Unlimited  number  of  verses, with control of font and
            size.

         -- Headers and footers.  They can be  different  for  left
            and right hand pages.

         -- Staffs can be grouped with braces or brackets.

         -- Automatic  transposition  of  music and chord marks per
            staff.

         -- First and subsequent endings.

         -- Optional  rehearsal  marks  and/or  automatic   measure
            numbering.   Rehearsal  marks can be boxed, circled, or
            plain.

         -- Crescendo/decrescendo marks.

         -- Rolls, ornaments, fermatas, accents.

         -- Measure repeats.

         -- Ties, slurs, phrase marks, octave  marks,  piano  pedal
            marks,  etc.   Ties,  slurs,  and  phrase  marks can be
            solid, dotted, or dashed.

         -- Suport for figured bass, analysis, and chords.

         -- Optional MIDI file output.  (Very  useful  for  "proof-
            listening"  to your songs to check for input mistakes!)
            Custom accidentals and  alternate  tuning  systems  are
            supported.  Gradual changes can be specified.

         -- PostScript   output  for  printing  on  any  PostScript
            compatible   output   device.    Can   be   used   with
            Ghostscript.

         -- All symbols in all standard PostScript fonts supported,
            in 1 to 100 point size.

         -- Input is a text  file,  for  easy  portability  between
            computer systems.

         -- Macros and 'include' files.

         -- General  'if'  clauses  that  can  be  used to generate
            different outputs based on values of parameters.

         -- Mup will determine how to lay out the music, but  there
            are  numerous  user controls available to fine-tune the
            output to meet your specific needs.

         -- Comprehensive User's Guide provided in both  PostScript
            and HTML formats, including many examples.
