Greetings:
I have a suggestion for Finale: the ability to highlight sections of music.
Here's an application for it: say that I'm teaching a choir to sing the "Amen" from "Messiah" (or any fugue), and I wish to highlight the subject in yellow, the countersubject in green, the answer in orange (or whatever's called for). It would make learning the parts easier, and, as a conductor, I use a highlighter coloring scheme to help me with memorization/learning/etc. Could be a powerful tool in several other applications, too, such as in a classroom setting and wanting to highlight something being projected on a screen.
Note that this is a different request than using layer-colors. I'd like to highlight sections of an entire stave, meaning, all five lines, not just notes, with the ability to stop or start highlighting wherever I want according to the smallest beat value (quarter, half, eighth, etc.).
This suggestion may have already come up; if so, apologies! Couldn't find it in the archives!
Hal McSwain
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Windows
highlighting
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Not a new suggestion, but a great one, nonetheless.
Please submit it to MakeMusic through the support section of their website. that way, it will be officially "logged."
Please submit it to MakeMusic through the support section of their website. that way, it will be officially "logged."
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Mike:
Thanks. I went to makemusic, and tried to post a suggestion. Apparently, that element of their web page isn't working. I'll hold on to the suggestion, but if anybody else knows how to post it, please go ahead.
Incidentally, I learned the music-color-marking scheme from my conducting teacher, Otto-Werner Mueller.
Hal
Thanks. I went to makemusic, and tried to post a suggestion. Apparently, that element of their web page isn't working. I'll hold on to the suggestion, but if anybody else knows how to post it, please go ahead.
Incidentally, I learned the music-color-marking scheme from my conducting teacher, Otto-Werner Mueller.
Hal
Hal
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Windows 10; 8 gig ram, Pentium i7 processor, > 100 gig free hard drive space
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You do it as a technical support submission. Evidently, they think that the program is so good, there is no need for a "suggestion/request" category.
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