Ever wonder why your music doesn’t look like your favorite engraved notation? Great publishers devote a lot of time and thought to make their music look beautiful – and distinct.
The Finale Copyist Font: A Hidden Treasure You Already Own
Today I’d like to highlight some of my favorite aspects of the Finale Copyist font. Designed by Mark Adler to fill the gap created by the lack of lowercase letters in other “handwritten” fonts, Finale Copyist also includes many hidden treasures.
Finale Tip: Using Layers in Choral Music
I recently received an email from a friend I haven’t seen in a long time. Most of the email took the form of a question:
“If I have a score with SATB voices on different staves, what’s the best way to merge the S/A and the T/B into one staff each?”
Was I disappointed my friend didn’t inquire about my thoughts and feelings first?
Chord Positioning and Alignment
Finale’s Selection Tool makes it easy to click and drag any chord into the right place. Sometimes, however, you need to move a lot of chords the same amount, or align all of your chords to appear uniform.
Using Staff Sets in Finale
Working with larger scores? What if you could instantly view any subset of staves in your score, including non-adjacent staves?