The above, my esteemed blog readers, is Finale 1.0, from 1988. Folks trying to sell other music notation software would like you to remember Finale 1.0 when comparing benefits with their 2011 offerings.
Finale, Scanning, and SmartMusic: The Real Story
Bob Grifa, Jane Minnis and Tom Johnson at the MENC Eastern Division Conference
Jane Minnis is the orchestral director at Darien High School in Darien, CT.
Finale Blog: Creating Mid-Score Pickup Measures
Finale makes creating a pickup measure easy: either specify the pickup measure as you complete Finale’s Setup Wizard, or go to Document > Pickup Measure.
Finale Blog: Plug-in Developer Jari Williamsson Talks Tech
Jari Williamsson lives in Göteborg, Sweden, where, just as in Minnesota, laptops and mittens do mix!
Last week we met Jari Williamsson, who, among many other things, is the creator of the Finale Productivity website, a violinist in Sweden’s Gothenburg Opera, a composer, a font designer, and a Finale plug-in developer.
A Brief History of Finale Fonts
Petrucci, Engraver, and Maestro, three of the many music fonts included with Finale.
Most of us have changed the look of a word processing document by switching text fonts, say from Times to Arial.