Piano
reductions
See Piano
Reduction Plug-in.
To create
a piano reduction for the entire piece
- From the
menu, choose Scoring and Arranging, then Piano Reduction. The Piano
Reduction dialog box appears.
- Select the staves to be included in the piano
reduction and the split point.
- Click OK.
To create
a piano reduction over a region
See also Imploding
music.
Using Finale’s Implode Music feature, you
can condense the musical material from several staves onto a single staff—or,
in the case of a piano reduction, onto two staves.
If the source staves contain several independent
rhythms, Finale will do its best to sort them out, but you may still have
to do some cleaning up afterward. Implode Music works best when the source
staves have only one or two independent rhythmic patterns.
- Click the Selection Tool
.
- Select the region to be imploded onto the treble-clef
staff of the piano reduction. You can select a region of on-screen
measures by shift-clicking or drag-enclosing, or entire staves by shift-clicking
to the left of each.
- From the Utilities menu, choose Implode Music.
The Implode Music dialog box appears, asking whether the resultant reduction
should appear on a new staff (at the bottom of the score) or whether the
music should be imploded onto the top existing staff (in which case the
current contents of that staff will be replaced). For more information
see Implode Music dialog
box.
- Click OK. If you’ve selected a large
amount of music to be imploded, this process may take time. Note that
any existing articulations and expressions in the source staves will appear
in the resultant staff.
- Repeat the procedure for the bass-clef staff
of the piano reduction. Don’t forget to change the clef of the
bass staff (see Clefs). If the resultant part is a
rehearsal piano part that you want to appear at a smaller size, see Reducing/Enlarging.
