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Celebrating 20 Years of Finale
Music begins with Finale.

Finale 2009 – the world’s most powerful music notation software – lets you express your creativity and love of music. Compose, arrange, notate, and print engraver-quality sheet music.

Finale Music Notation

Entering Notes
From MIDI to your mouse, from scanning to Finale’s exclusive MicNotator, no other software offers you more note entry options.
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SmartMusic Support and Other Educator Tools
Only Finale can create SmartMusic accompaniments and Finale 2009 makes it easier than ever with support for linked parts, repeats, and more. With the Exercise Wizard, Studio View to teach composition, educator templates, and more, Finale is the first choice of music educators worldwide. Learn more.

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Pictures at an Exhibition – Modest Mussorgsky (.mp3)
Garritan Sounds
Finale now includes more than 300 world-class instrument sounds from the makers of Garritan Personal Orchestra, ranging from orchestral instruments to choirs, jazz brass to marching percussion, handbells, world instruments, and more.



New Orleans Blues featuring Debbie Duncan (.wav)

Record/Import Audio
Give arrangements authenticity and life with a real vocal or instrumental track. Only Finale lets you record or import a mono or stereo audio file to enhance playback.
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Linked Parts and Other Timesavers
Finale’s introduction in 1988 represented a revolution in saving time. Today we take it for granted that you don’t have to start over if you decide to add another bar on page one. Finale offers a variety of time-saving tools like linked parts, multiple page editing, ScoreMerger™, and more.

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“We use Finale because it’s the best. Enough said.”

–Wynton Marsalis, musician, composer, band leader, Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winner