Finale Forum

Is it unusual for a single movement of a multi-movement work to be dedicated to someone, while the rest of the work is dedicated to a second person? The middle movement of my violin concerto was begun as a stand-alone piece, and as such I had dedicated it to someone very important in my life. Howeve...

zuill wrote:Noteman can only play 8th notes.

Zuill

so no viola solos?

I am going on the presumption that the original poster wants the 1st G to go up to the E, and the D# to go down to the G in the next measure. Ergo, voice crossing, common enough in orchestral writing. Without the larger context of the passage it's impossible to say whether in this case the voice cro...

As RMK said, tied half note to dotted quarter for layer two. I I wouldn't alter the stem direction since it obviously shows a voice crossing, however, I would move the whole note in the first measure away from the stem of the layer 2 note to make it clear that it is not sharing that stem. Move it on...

you know what saves even more time? simply defining a keyboard shortcut for cresc/decresc in the Smartshapes menu. I use C and D respectively. no need to drag a decresc in the opposite direction to create a crescendo. Just activate the Smarshapes tool, select the cresc, hairpin icon, then press Shif...

Is this a Mac-only issue? I've just finished printing out the materials for a violin concerto that has multiple instances of divisi staves for the strings, and by defining the parts as containing both staves (or more depending), I can simply choose which "part" I want to print and it prints the whol...

create an expression category for them that is defined as showing in score, but not parts?

simpler would just be to redefine the number for that MM rest as something off the page, no?

I did try looking at some concerti, but none of them had any time signature changes during the cadenza.. they had unmeasured measures, which still appear as 4/4 (or whatever the concerto is in).

but thank-you, I will do this because damn it will save on page turns!!

I have a question to which I can't seem to find an answer, or at least, I can't seem to word it properly to get a response from google. I have a score for a violin concerto. The cadenza changes time signatures constantly. This means that the rests in the orchestral parts also reflect these constant ...

So if I'm getting this right, no matter what MakeMusic does with Finale, people will still bitch and moan?

Thank you for the responses. I think I understand and will begin working on it. One further question: do I add the cue staff to the score itself and then hide it, or do I add it just to the part alone? Thanks! To the score. If this is what I think it is (an alternate line, as one sometimes finds in...

for a cue staff (one that shows alternate performance options, for example): add a staff to the score, resize only that staff to 75% (or 65% if you prefer a bit smaller). add your notes where needed. then hide the staff where it is not needed (you can select the page layout tool IIRC and then click ...

thank-you all for the awesome feedback. it's hard sometimes to make decisions of this sort... there's always the fear that some musicians might be offended at being treated like children (except I've noticed a distinct "childlike" trend among a certain level of orchestral musicians). I will go the "...

The situation: a concerto, with a repeated, and modulating, orchestral phrase with a brief interjection by the soloist between repetitions. The orchestra phrase has to be molto espr. (the solo interjection sort of comes "out of the fog, to shine briefly) Now, normally, I'd place an "espr." marking a...

all my conductor scores are 11x14, and I've gotten nothing but compliments from the conductors working from my scores.

a conductor's music stand is always larger than musicians' stands.
all my orchestra parts are 9x12.

miker wrote:I wonder if the incompatibility is with the older version of Windows, and not necessarily with Finale?

I'm running Win 8.1 and Finale 25 and it's lightening fast.
So nothing to do with the OS.

Peter Thomsen wrote:A new blog post:
https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... teraction-

Now THAT is huge!
It makes Fin26 a must-have for me now.

thank-you Zuill. It's a double stop on violins, so I'll go with the 2nd instance. It has to be clear that the bottom note is held in one bow stroke. an O/T to my O/T... it's related though not to this piece. let's say there was a similar situation with double stops and some repeated notes, where you...

I'm curious how one should place the slur for this grace note.
The bottom note is tied to the main note, and placing a slur at the bottom looks odd.

John Ruggero wrote:Dear Flamingosoundandshow,

So who is your new love?

melodrama.

Peter Thomsen wrote:News from the MakeMusic blog:
https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/auto-s ... ersion-26/

very nice

It is EXACTLY like the example I gave.

RMK wrote:To be totally fair, it sounds like you are talking about D*****.

Now what would make you think that?

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