[Editor’s Note: After reading my interview with Steven Alper about the use of Finale on Broadway, another long-time Finale user, Peter Miller, described to me some of his experiences on Broadway in Finale’s early days.
Finale Tip: Using Layers in Choral Music
I recently received an email from a friend I haven’t seen in a long time. Most of the email took the form of a question:
“If I have a score with SATB voices on different staves, what’s the best way to merge the S/A and the T/B into one staff each?”
Was I disappointed my friend didn’t inquire about my thoughts and feelings first?
Writing Chords in Jazz and Popular Music
Today I’d like to start a discussion on writing chords in jazz or contemporary music. In a way, chord charts are their own language, filled with hundreds of different systems and dialects.
MakeMusic Transfers MusicXML Development to W3C
Today MakeMusic announced that it is transferring development of its industry-standard MusicXML format to the new Music Notation Community Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Steven M. Alper on Preparing Music for Broadway
In a recent Finale Blog post we met composer, author, and orchestrator Steven M. Alper, a long-time user and friend of Finale.