After you have optimized, the score should be all but complete. It’s now time to deal with the parts. In the Finale of old, when the score was finished and you were ready to generate parts, you needed to extract them into autonomous documents, which themselves needed to be cleaned up and individually prepared for printing. Any change to the score required an edit to all respective parts. Today, parts are integrated within the score and the content is intelligently linked. Edits to music in the score also apply to the part. Changes to notation in either score or part applies to the other respectively, but many elements in parts, such as expressions and text, can be edited independently. In this section, you will learn how to create, manage, edit, and print parts using Linked Parts technology.
Whenever you begin a document with the Setup Wizard (or add a staff with the New Staves (with Setup Wizard) command), you have the option to “Generate Linked Parts.” When you check this box, upon completing the Wizard, Finale generates the parts based on the instruments you chose. To view parts, from the Document menu, choose Edit Parts, and then select the part - the part name is always originally the same as the staff/group name from the score.
Note that optimization can be added or removed at any time—before or after parts have been generated.
There’s no hurry to create linked parts however, they can be added at any time. You might even wait until the score is complete before generating them (if, for example, you are working with scores created in a version prior to Finale 2010.) Our document does not yet contain parts, so let’s generate them now. To start from this point, open “Tutorial 5a.”
Click Edit Part Definition to change the part name, add or remove staves, and make other advanced edits to your parts.
As mentioned earlier, notation changes (such as changing pitches and rhythms) made to either the part or the score apply to the other respectively. Change the pitch of a note in the part and check the score to see for yourself. Since other markings, such as expressions, often need to be positioned differently in the parts than in the score, the positioning link between an expression in a part and its parent can be broken.
Note you can relink an expression in all parts by selecting Relink In All Parts from the Expression context menu in the score.
Expressions are only one of many types of elements that can be edited this way. Text, repeat markings, articulations, chords, and other markings behave similarly. See Linked Parts in the User Manual for details.
When the score and parts are nearing completion, it’s time to transform consecutive empty measures into multimeasure rests.
After creating multimeasure rests, you may want to visit each part to ensure the measure and system layout meets your approval. For example, if a measure occupies a whole system at the end of the part, you can use the Selection Tool to fix it (select the measure and press the up arrow key on your keyboard).
When parts are complete, print them directly from the project file. Simply choose Print from the File menu and check the parts you want to print. See Printing linked parts in the User Manual for details.
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