PeterMany thanks for your attention and your tutorial. Many obscure points have been solved and I have succeded in making simple mirror copies of partial measures. But at the same time new demands and doubts appeared:
1.What are the actual definition and purpose of a pickup measure? Formerly I supposed that “source measure” and “pickup measure” were synonymous, so I thought that it was necessary assign a condition of “pickup” to a measure in order to be able to mirror it. But you textually state that “the source measure can be a pickup measure or an ordinary measure”. Once this distinction has been made, tell me please: what is a pickup measure (why is it necessary push the pickup notes from the beginning of measure???)
2.In the present moment, as an beginner composition student, I use Finale as an self-instructional tool: in my Harmony studies I’m currently involved with systematic analysis of harmonic cadences. In order to get this, I’ve planned to write a sort of template containg all possible chord states and positions prescribed by classic Harmony, in what I’ve succeded, creating the following schematic model structure:
in a 4/4 time signature, I’ve filled half of each one of 16 measures with chords in half notes (designed by “Xi” in the subsequent schemes):
| X1 rest | X2 rest | X3 rest | … | X15 rest | X16 rest ||
This is the structure I’d like to be a static one, to be saved as a template. In the sequence, I would create a first page of a new document with this template, in which I would put an Y1 chord in the second half of the first measure of template and this would be automatically mirrored in the subsequent second half measure of all the remaining 15 measures:
| X1 Y1 | X2 Y1(mirror) | X3 Y1(mirror) | … | X16 Y1(mirror)||
The second page would then be created with an analog procedure, this time filling the second halfs of each measure with another chord Y2:
| X1 Y2 | X2 Y2(mirror) | X3 Y2(mirror) | … | X16 Y2(mirror)||
what shouldn’t affect the previous pages. All these steps would then be repeated indefinitely, as many times as the quantity of possibilities to be analysed (filling new corresponding pages…):
page 3:
| X1 Y3 | X2 Y3(mirror) | X3 Y3(mirror) | … | X16 Y3(mirror)||
page 4:
| X1 Y4 | X2 Y4(mirror) | X3 Y4(mirror) | … | X16 Y4(mirror)||
and so on…
Is all this craziness possible??? How? I’ve tried in a lot of manners… no one functioned and I’d really be glad if this could happen…
Thanks again!
Marcelo Moreira
Campinas - SP - BRAZIL