The Mup Music Publication program

Mup is a shareware music publication program. Mup Version 5.4 is now available in source form as well as ready-to-run for MS-DOS/Windows and Linux x86. There is also a Mac version available.

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 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. 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, and bass, 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.
• 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!)
• PostScript output for printing on any PostScript compatible output device. Can be used with Ghostscript.
• All standard PostScript fonts supported, in 1 to 100 point size, including most common non-English characters.
• 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.
• Mup is available via ftp to try out for free. If you like it and want to keep it, the shareware registration is far lower than the cost of most music publication software.

Arkkra Enterprises