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.
Streamlining Part Layout with Finale 2011

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.
Finale Blog: “A rose by any other name…”

Back in 2003 I found myself in a San Antonio hotel conference room with several Texas band directors seated around a large table.
Another use of Finale’s ScoreMerger
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.
Finale Partner Garritan Nominated for SOS Award

Are you a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences? I’m guessing most of you are not, and neither am I.