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Re: Notational Software

Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2013-02-04 15:55

rmk54 offers good advice, and I'd be happy to share my salt when it comes to practical work with Finale.

I do get bugged every year to upgrade my issue of Finale. Many of my colleagues have switched to Sibelius.

The last big job (big on the scale of things I'm willing to do with it) I did with Finale was to enter the Eb Alto saxophone line for Harlem Nocturne, and transpose it to Bb (clarinet), leaving me with the sax and clarinet parts on two staffs in the same file.

Using "print parts" from the Finale file menu gave me a 4-page clarinet part consisting of 3-lines per page. Almost all of the dynamic markings and hairpins came out misplaced. There is no provision in Finale for fiddling with the automated separation of a score into parts.

I scraped the clarinet line from my unison duet and pasted it into a new file, where I was able to make a clean two page clarinet part with everything in its proper place.

A colleague uses (a dated) version of Finale much more fluently than I. He plays an 88 note MIDI keyboard with his left hand and sets note durations with his right hand on the computer's numerical keyboard. He seldom bothers going back over all those flyspecs to put in dynamics, articulation markings, hairpins, slurs, ... We smile at one another as we grab pencils and horns and start inventing interpretations of his stuff.

Covered as I am in salt, I still can't get "put so many 16ths in the space of so many 1/8ths to work to make tuplets. Here's a challenge: create an 1/8 note triplet with the last 1/8th broken into a 1/16 rest followed by a 1/16 note. (and, no, writing it as a tied sextolet doesn't work either). My solution: make the triplet, and put a slash mark to indicate the break before the last note of the triplet.

I know that I'm not a competent Finale guy, but that's me selecting note durations and poking them onto staves with the mouse.

Bob Phillips

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