Lyrics Tool
This tool lets you create, edit, and move
lyrics in your score. You can create many different sets of lyrics (which
you might use, for example, in a hymn with several verses); you can move
the
(the imaginary line upon which the bottoms of the words align) up or down
independently for each set of lyrics. When you click this tool, the Lyrics
menu appears; it contains all the commands you need to create lyrics in
your score. See Lyrics for more information.
Special
mouse clicks
- Click
a staff to tell Finale the staff to which you want lyrics attached.
- In
Type Into Score, use the up and down arrows to move to the previous
or next verse, chorus or section.
- In
Type Into Score mode or Click Assignment mode, drag the positioning triangles
at the left edge of the screen to specify the vertical position
of the baseline for the lyric set you’re inserting. For a full discussion
of these triangles and their functions, see Lyrics.
- In
Type Into Score mode, click near the first note to indicate which
note you want to attach a syllable to. Then type the lyrics normally.
- In
Type Into Score mode, click near a note to select (highlight) the
syllable attached to it. Anything you now type replaces the highlighted
syllable.
- In
Click Assignment mode, click near the first note to attach the
first syllable in the scrolling window. (If the note is in Voice 2, shift-click.)
- In
Click Assignment mode, ctrl-click
near the first note to tell Finale to assign all syllables in the
lyric set displayed in the scrolling window. Finale attaches one syllable
at a time to subsequent notes in the melody, automatically skipping over
rests and tied notes. (Finale only assigns lyrics to the notes in the
current layer, as identified by the pressed Layer push
button in the
lower-left corner of the window.)
- In
Edit Word Extensions mode, click near the sustained syllable to
display a handle at the end of the syllable. (If the note is in Voice
2, shift-click.) Drag this handle to the right to draw a word extension
underline (indicating that the syllable is sustained through more than
one note). Click this handle and press delete to remove the word extension.
- In
Adjust Syllables mode, click near the syllable you want to move
to display handles on that syllable and any others attached to the same
note. (If the syllable is assigned to a note in Voice 2, shift-click.)
Drag a lower handle to move the syllable; select it and press backspace to restore it to its original position;
select it and press delete to remove it from the score. Select several
vertically-aligned handles (by shift-clicking, drag-enclosing or using
ctrl-A)
and choose alignment and justification options from the Alignment and
Justification submenus. See Lyrics menu.
- In
Clone Lyric mode, click one measure, shift-click another measure, drag-enclose
several measures, or click to the left of the staff to select one
measure, additional measures, a group of measures, or the entire staff
at once. Drag the first selected measure so that it’s superimposed on
the first target measure to copy the lyrics from the selected measures
to the target measures.
- In
Shift Lyrics mode, click near the first syllable you want shifted
to shift that syllable and subsequent syllables one note to the right
or left (automatically skipping rests and tied notes).
Contextual Menus
With Adjust Syllables selected in the Lyrics
menu, right-click
the handle closest to a syllable. A contextual menu will be displayed
where you can select various items.
Lyric handles
Menu item
|
What it does
|
Align Default
|
Changes the alignment of the syllables
back to Finale’s global setting
|
Align Center
|
Changes the alignment of the syllables
to centered under the note
|
Align Left
|
Changes the alignment of the syllables
to the left under the note
|
Align Right
|
Changes the alignment of the syllables
to the right under the note
|
Justify Default
|
Changes the justification of the syllables
back to Finale’s global setting
|
Justify Center
|
Changes the justification of the syllables
to centered relative to each other
|
Justify Left
|
Changes the justification of the syllables
to the left relative to each other
|
Justify Right
|
Changes the justification of the syllables
to the right relative to each other
|
See Also:
Lyrics menu
Main Tool
Palette
Lyrics
Tool