Copying and pasting expressions

If you’ve painstakingly put staccato, accent, and tenuto marks into your Trombone 1 part, you certainly don’t want to have to reenter them into the other parts. Fortunately, Finale allows you to copy them onto any other music in the score, even if the notes are different.

1. Click the Selection Tool  . Scroll to measure 2, so that it’s the first measure on the screen.
2. From the Edit menu, choose Edit Filter.

The Edit Filter dialog box appears, displaying which elements of the music you can copy. You can choose any combination of these elements.

3. Click None.  
4. Select Articulations. Click OK. Now that you’ve specified beforehand which items you want copied, all that remains is for you to specify where you want them copied from and to.
5. Click measure 2 in the top staff. That is, highlight the music whose articulations you want to copy.
6. Drag the highlighted measure so that it’s superimposed on measure 3 (of the same staff). Release the mouse button.

Finale copies the articulations from measure 2 onto the notes of measure 3.

If the rhythmic values of the notes in the source and target measures aren’t identical, Finale does its best to place your articulations on any notes that do occur on the same beats.

The technique you just used to copy the articulations from one place to another is an important one, and you can use it any time you need to copy one element of the music to another spot. A common example is chord symbols: In a verse-chorus-verse song, you need only enter the chord symbols for the first verse. Then, with the Copy method you just used, you can copy just the chord symbols from the first verse to the last verse—even if the melody is different each time.

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