The Finale Primer: Mastering the Art of Music Notation with Finale - Softcover

Schwartzman, Arnold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879305398 ISBN 13: 9780879305390

Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc, 1998

Synopsis

This is the first step-by-step guide to using Coda's Finale, the world's number one software program for creating simple or complex music notation. This easy-to-use, practical book flattens Finale's robust learning curve and helps musicians and composers understand and maximize the program's invaluable capabilities in editing, reformatting, and reorganizing musical material. Finale is a powerful "electronic scribe" that helps you with all music preparation -- whether copying and replicating an existing piece of music or creating an original work. Written by a pioneer in interactive CD-ROM, MIDI files, hard disk recording and music score publication, the book is designed to help you use the Finale manuals more efficiently, especially when tackling particularly difficult challenges in the exacting art of music notation. Providing hundreds of easy-to-read screen shots and illustrations, The Finale Primer outlines navigational basics and reinforces notational concepts with drills and projects at the end of each lesson. These quickly build skills that lay the essential groundwork for score notation and prepare you for further mastery of the program. Topics range from exploring the Finale toolbox to creating a lead sheet, printing the final score, and special guitar notation. Covers Finale for both Macintosh and Windows.

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Review:

"Finale is the leading scoring program for professional music engravers because it boasts powerful MIDI and transcribing capabilities as well as publication-quality output. But because of its awesome scope and power, negotiating the learning curve can make you feel like you're scaling Mt. Everest without oxygen. The Finale Primer by Bill Purse makes the trek to the notational summit feel like a walk in the park...An excellent shortcut to learning the software." -- Guitar Shop, January 1999

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0879305398
• ISBN 13: 9780879305390
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 253