Chord
Analysis Plug-in
How to get there
Select a region of your score containing
stacked notes in one or two staves with the Selection Tool. From the Plug-ins menu, choose Scoring and Arranging, and then Chord
Analysis.
What it does
The Chord Analysis plug-in generates chord
symbols by analyzing existing notation. This plug-in works much like the
One-Staff Analysis and Two-Staff Analysis options under the chord menu,
but for any region of your score selected with the Selection Tool.
- Add
chord symbol to: First note in each measure · All down beats · All notes.
Use these options to specify the frequency of automatically generated
chord symbols. Choose First note in each measure to analyze only the first
beat in each measure and disregard entries on subsequent beats. Choose
All down beats to analyze only emphasized beats. This setting includes
beats 1 and 3 in common time and beats 1 and 2 for simple 6/8 (1 and 4
for compound 6/8 etc.). Choose all notes to analyze all note in the selected
region.
Note: As indicated
in this dialog box, chord symbols are only added to notes and not rests.
- Show
unknown chord suffix as. If Finale is unable to interpret a chord,
the text displayed in this box will appear in the score.
- Allow
repeated chord symbols. If this option is unchecked chord symbols
are only added when the harmonic progression changes, also accounting
for boundaries set under ‘Add chord symbol to.’ If this option is checked
chord symbols are placed on all chords, again, accounting for the boundaries
specified under ‘Add chord symbol to.’
- Repeat
chord symbol at beginning of next system. Check this box to instruct
Finale to disregard an unchecked ‘Allow repeated chord symbols’ setting
for repeated chords on the first beat of a system. In other words, with
this option checked, a chord symbol always appears at the beginning of
each system.
