Composer and pianist Dan Cavanagh is the Associate Director of Jazz Studies and an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing in Finale
Finale includes dozens of plug-ins. I describe Finale’s plug-ins as “little applications that make complicated tasks easy.” One of the coolest plug-ins (and perhaps my favorite to demonstrate) is called “Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing.” This plug-in automatically harmonizes any melody, allowing you to choose from a wide variety of harmonization styles, ranging from two to six parts.
Finale 2011 and the Garritan Aria Player
The Garritan Aria Player in Finale 2011
In part because I think its interface makes for a nice blog photo, I thought I’d talk about the cool Garritan Aria Player included with Finale 2011.
Global Staff Attributes: Let Finale do your heavy lifting
At a recent Finale training in Dallas I spoke to a user who had figured out HOW to do what they wanted to do with Finale, but not how to do it efficiently.
Finale can do anything. But make a worksheet fun?
When I hear the word “worksheet,” my initial reaction is not the giddy anticipation of fun. Perhaps I’m not alone in this.