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Music Notation Using Finale

This document is the syllabus for a course on using the music notation software Finale. The course contains 12 lessons covering a range of topics for creating professional-quality musical scores and parts, including entering and editing melodies, working with key signatures and time signatures, adding lyrics, chord symbols, and expressive markings, formatting multi-staff scores, using shortcuts, adjusting page layout, creating repeats and endings, customizing graphics, and techniques for specific instruments like tablature and fingerings.

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Music Notation Using Finale

This document is the syllabus for a course on using the music notation software Finale. The course contains 12 lessons covering a range of topics for creating professional-quality musical scores and parts, including entering and editing melodies, working with key signatures and time signatures, adding lyrics, chord symbols, and expressive markings, formatting multi-staff scores, using shortcuts, adjusting page layout, creating repeats and endings, customizing graphics, and techniques for specific instruments like tablature and fingerings.

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Music Notation Using Finale: Syllabus

Course Authors: Jonathan Feist

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Lesson 1: Writing a Melody

 Entering Finale and Creating a New Document


 The Finale Interface
 Working with Text
 Using Menus
 Entering Notation: Key Signatures
 Adding Notes with Simple Entry
 Triplets
 Accidentals
 Adding Notes with Speedy Entry
 Deleting Extra Measures with the Mass Mover

Lesson 2: Key Signatures, Time Signatures, and Clefs

 Key Signatures
 Select Region
 Time Signatures
 A Time Signature Anecdote
 The Solution!
 Clefs

Lesson 3: Lead Sheets

 Chord Symbols
 Measure Numbers and Barlines
 Transposing a Lead Sheet

Lesson 4: Lyrics

 Entering Lyrics
 Multiple Verses
 Word Extensions
 Adjusting Lyrics
 Shifting Lyrics to Other Notes
 Using Word Processing Software for Lyrics
 Entering Lyrics Using Click Assignment
 Other Uses for Lyrics

Lesson 5: Expressive Markings

 Adding Articulations
 Metatools
 Mass Mover Shortcuts
 Adding Expressions
 Creating an Expression
 Hairpins and Other Smart Shapes

Lesson 6: Multiple Staves

 Adding, Moving, and Deleting Staves


 Grouping Staves
 Customizing Staves
 Hiding Measure Numbers and Moving Staves
 Adding Expressions to Multi-Staff Music
 Staff Styles
 Meta Tools
 Extracting Parts

Lesson 7: Shortcuts

 The Default Document


 Creating a Default Document
 Customizing a Default Document
 Another Customization
 Document Templates
 Creating New Documents with Templates
 Creating Libraries

Lesson 8: Page Layout

 The Page Layout Tool


 Setting Margins
 System Optimization
 Adding a Cover Page
 Exporting Notation

Lesson 9: Roadmaps

 A Roadmap Primer
 Easy Repeats
 The Repeat Tool
 Adding a First Ending
 Adding a Second Ending
 Segnos and Codas
 Codas

Lesson 10: Fine Tuning Graphics

 Note Spacing
 Manually Respacing Notes
 Special Tools
 Moving the Sharp
 Changing Noteheads
 Designing Shapes
Lesson 11: Layers: Choral Scores and Drum Set Notation

 Layers and Voices


 Drum Set Notation
 Layers and Chord Charts

Lesson 12: Fingerings, Tablature, and Other Instrument-Specific Notation

 Fingerings
 Applying Fingerings
 String Numbers
 Tablature
 Editing Tablature
 Bonus Technique 1: Guitar Fretboard Diagrams
 Bonus Technique 2: Drum Stickings

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