Looking to use a different trill than the default shape offered on the SmartShape palette?
Press Ctrl (Win) or Option (Mac) then click on the Custom Line Tool (it looks like a question mark) to open the Smart Line Selection dialog box:
Select one of the presets, or click Create to make your own!
Like any written language, music notation continually evolves. In October 1974 more than eighty musicians, representing seventeen countries, met in Ghent, Belgium to discuss this evolution.
Photo Credit: Sergey Petrov
Your score is finished, and it looks great. But before anyone can perform your music you’ll need to prepare and edit your parts.
Back in 2003 I found myself in a San Antonio hotel conference room with several Texas band directors seated around a large table.
In a previous blog post I described the most common use of Finale’s ScoreMerger feature: combining separate Finale files as movements where each file adds more measures to the whole.