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Finale is the flagship program of a series of scorewriters created by MakeMusic for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Image File history File links Finale2006logo. ...
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A scorewriter, or music notation program, is software used to automate the task of writing and engraving sheet music. ...
MakeMusic is the creator of Finale Music Notation, and the Finale series. ...
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MakeMusic also offers several less expensive versions of Finale, with subsets of the main program's features. These include Finale NotePad, Printmusic, and Allegro. Two more such versions, Finale Guitar and Finale Songwriter, have feature sets tailored to different musicians' needs. Another "lite" program, Finale NotePad Plus, was previously made but is now discontinued.
Operation The default document is a 31-measure piece for a single treble clef instrument. A Setup Wizard, the preferred method of starting a score, consists of a set of dialogs to specify the instrumentation, time signature, key signature, pick-up measure, title and composer. In musical terminology, a bar or measure is a segment of time defined as a given number of beats of a given duration. ...
A clef (French for key) is a symbol used in musical notation that assigns notes to lines and spaces on the musical staff. ...
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The time signature (also known as meter signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each bar and what note value constitutes one beat. ...
This key signature – A major or F# minor – consists of three sharps placed after the clef In musical notation, a key signature is a series of sharp symbols or flat symbols placed on the staff, designating notes that are to be consistently played one semitone higher or lower than the...
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There is a Main Tool palette, and the right tool must be selected to work on a given score element, (e.g., the Smart Shape tool to work on trill lines and dynamics "hairpins" (so-named because the symbols resemble women's hairpins), the Staff tool to work on staves). Also, there are four layers of music that can overlap. Each tool has an associated menu just to the left of the Help menu, available only when that particular tool is selected. Thus, the operation of Finale bears at least some surface similarities to Adobe Photoshop. The trill is a musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes of a scale (compare mordent and tremolo). ...
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On the screen, Finale color codes some elements of the score as a visual aid, on the print-out all score elements are black (unless color print-out is explicitly chosen). With the right tool selected, many adjustments are possible either by clicking and dragging or by entering measurements in a dialog box.
Finale automatically takes care of many of the more mechanical aspects of music notation, such as stem direction and alignment of different rhythmic values. For other things, the program makes a good guess, such as enharmonic spelling from a piano keyboard: it is smart enough to spell F-sharp rather than G-flat in a D dominant 7th (the dominant or fifth of the dominant) chord in C minor; but for other chords, such as a G major 7 +5 (major seventh chord with an augmented fifth), it might use G-flat instead of F-sharp.
Version history The lead programmer for Finale version 1.0 in 1988 was Phil Farrand, better known in some circles as an author of Nitpicker's Guides for Star Trek and The X-Files. He wrote the original version software for Coda Music Software, which was later sold to Net4Music and then became MakeMusic After Finale version 3.7, Finale's marketers made the switch to years as identifiers for each new release, starting with Finale 97. Phil Farrand (born November 5, 1958) is an American computer programmer, webmaster and author. ...
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Finale 2004, released in early 2004, was the first release to run natively on Macintosh computers running OS X "Panther". This was considered a "late" release by MakeMusic, and full support for the features of OS X was limited at first. More comprehensive support was brought "on-line" through maintenance releases going forward into 2004. Finale 2004 also continued to support PowerPC Macs running OS 9. This release shortened the development cycle for Finale 2005, which was released the following August. While the number of new features in Finale '05 were necessarily limited, this was the first release to have both Windows and Mac versions on the same distribution CD. For other uses, see Macintosh (disambiguation) and Mac. ...
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The most advertised new feature of Finale 2006 (released in the summer of 2005) was the Garritan Personal Orchestra, an integrated sound library with upgradeable selections from Garritan Personal Orchestra for more lifelike playback than the SmartMusic SoftSynth (which is still included in the program). In addition to Page View and Scroll View, the 2006 release added StudioView™, a display mode which is similar to Scroll View with the addition of a sequencer interface. This feature offers an environment for creation, evaluation, and experimentation with different ideas in a multi-track environment. In StudioView, an additional staff shows up called TempoTap™, allowing for complete control over rubati, accelerandi, and ritardandi.
As of December 2006, the current shipping version of Finale is Finale 2007. A key new feature of this release is an integrated "linked" score and part management system. A properly-set-up "full score for extraction" can now contain all the data and formatting necessary to generate a full set of linked ensemble parts, which are ensconced within a single Finale master document. Limitations on the scope of custom formatting between parts and conductor score (such as the size and formatting of measure numbers) suggest that this new feature is targeted to media production work, where quick turnaround and accuracy is a crucial factor, rather than publishing, though publishers still may use certain aspects of linked parts to improve the part creation process. The 2007 release also is a Universal binary, and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs. Universal Binary Logo A Universal binary is — in Apple Computers parlance — an application bundle that runs natively on both PowerPC- and x86 (Intel)-based Macintosh computers. ...
Announced on June 27th 2007, Finale 2008 is expected to begin shipping in July 2007. Pre-orders are currently being taken. [1] This version will be the first to come out with full Vista support. Windows Vista is a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, Tablet PCs, and media centers. ...
Capabilities Finale can notate anything from a textbook chorale to a cut-out score including new symbols invented by the composer. It is also capable of working with guitar tablature and includes a jazz font similar to that used in the Real Book. Virtually all score elements can be positioned or adjusted, either by dragging (with the appropriate tool selected) or by using dialog boxes with measurements in inches, centimeters or picas. A chorale was originally a hymn of the Lutheran church sung by the entire congregation. ...
The Real Book can refer to any of a number of popular jazz fake books, but is generally used to refer to Volume 1 of a semi-underground series transcribed and collated by students at Berklee College of Music during the 1970s. ...
Music can be entered by playing on a MIDI instrument connected to the computer, typing pitches and durations on the computer keyboard, by clicking with the mouse, or by playing an instrument, such as the flute, into a microphone (although this is known to cause many errors). Using the Hyperscribe tool, a piece may be played in tempo and Finale will attempt to transcribe it. It's also possible to play notes one at a time and use the computer keyboard to indicate durations. From Finale 2001 onward, the program included Mic Notator, a module able to notate pitches played on an acoustic instrument via a microphone connected to the computer. Although MIDI sequencing is not the program's primary purpose, newer versions can create MIDI files that take into account stylistic variances, such as Baroque dotted note interpretation. Example 1. ...
Finale 2004 also introduced FinaleScript, a scripting language for the automation of tasks such as transcribing music for other instruments to use. Scripting languages (commonly called script languages) are computer programming languages that are typically interpreted. ...
"Lite" versions Several "lite" versions of Finale, each with a subset of Finale's features, are made. “Superset†redirects here. ...
Finale NotePad is a free version with extremely limited staff and notation capabilities. Finale NotePad Plus, now discontinued, added the ability to save as a MIDI file. This feature has been reintroduced to NotePad in Finale NotePad 2008. PrintMusic is a more expensive and somewhat more robust version, and Allegro is a further superset of PrintMusic.
Finale Guitar is a specialized version with Finale's full complement of tablature features, and Finale Songwriter has features needed by those writing scores with lyrics. Example of numeric vihuela tablature from the book Orphenica Lyra by Miguel de Fuenllana (1554). ...
Prominent users Finale is used by large publishers such as the Hal Leonard Corporation and by prestigious schools such the New England Conservatory, the Juilliard School, Millikin University, the Berklee College of Music and the Lemmensinstituut. Academy Award-winning movies such as Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, Spider-Man 2, Sideways, Polar Express, The Village, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ and Finding Neverland were all scored with Finale.[citation needed] Hal Leonard Corporation is a US sheet music publishing company. ...
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Criticisms and known issues Many users find Finale easy to learn, but others find it to be difficult.
These are problems (not necessarily common) that some users run into when using Finale:
- Users sharing files between different versions of Finale will notice that it is not fully backwards-compatible. Newer versions of Finale can open older files, but a newer file cannot be converted to an older version. Finale 2003 added a feature to import and export MusicXML files, largely solving the problem of backwards-compatibility.
- Finale's automatic measure layout doesn't always place measures where the user wants them. However, the user can override the default layout if necessary.
- Although Finale automatically avoids collisions between notes and other elements, it does not address this completely. Finale 2007 includes a vertical spacing plug-in which adds and subtracts space between staves and systems as it is needed to prevent vertical collisions.
- Text Search and Replace doesn't always find every occurrence [2]
- Finale does not yet support Unicode when entering lyrics. As of Finale 2007, only ASCII-based characters are supported. Finale also supports 2-byte (Huge) fonts.
The term backwards compatible refers to the ability of a recent software or hardware components to be able to work with earlier versions of the same product. ...
MusicXML is an open, XML-based music notation file format. ...
See also GNU LilyPond is a free software program for engraving sheet music for all common operating systems; it is written in C++ and assembled by a Scheme library (GNU Guile) which also allows user customization and extension[1]. It uses a simple text notation for music, which is then compiled into...
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External links - FinaleMusic (official website)
- Download Finale Notepad
- User forum
- Real-time Finale discussion on IRC
- Review of Finale 2005 by Keith Gemmell.
- The Finale School (Tutorial website for Finale)
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