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Features:
Getting Started
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Templates
When creating a full score, a worksheet, quiz or even a dissertation,
the easiest way to start is simply to open a pre-created template from the
Launch Window. Select from more than 60 pre-made templates (including SATB,
orchestral and band scores, solfege, and more) then let Finale’s Setup Wizard do
the rest by adding:
- text (including title, composer, copyright, arranger and lyricist)
- key and time signatures
- pickup measures
- tempo markings
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Setting-up your score
Finale’s Setup Wizard helps you get up and running quickly.
Just answer a few questions
What instruments or voices do you want? You can even select from pre-defined ensembles
or create your own. What key? Time signature? Music font? Tempo?
Finale will set up your score, complete with staves in correct order, instrument
transpositions, tempo marking, staff groupings, intelligent page layout that automatically
adjusts system position, size, and space between staves to reduce white space on
the page.
You can also choose from a wide variety of
personal document styles, specify the number of measures in your score,
and insert text for the title, composer, arranger, lyricist, copyright and a sub-title.
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Music Fonts
Finale gives you complete control over the fonts used for notation
and text in your music. It includes a variety of engraved, hand-written and specialty
fonts and supports third-party fonts.
New in Finale 2011
Three new music fonts for percussion, mallets and an
AlphaNotes™Font
for use with beginning music students.
Finale Percussion™
Font
Many publishers use icons to represent standard percussion instruments in their
scores. This font contains the most complete collection of percussion characters
available. Also included are handbell symbols and many unique characters including
castanets, vibraslap, cannon and repeatable characters like sine waves, scribbles, and more.

Finale Mallets Font
This font includes icons to represent any variety of mallet usages, including the
ability to create cross-mallet symbols. As an example you could use images to indicate
that the performer should use a hard and soft mallet in the left hand, and a medium
and steel mallet in the right hand.

The following fonts are included in Finale:
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Maestro Wide
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Maestro
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Petrucci
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Engraver
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Broadway Copyist
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Broadway Copyist (example showing text and music)
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Jazz
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Seville
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Tamburo
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Create the look you want with Personal Document Styles. Customize the appearance
of new documents by controlling text and music fonts, page layout, and
more.
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Trading Up?
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Owners of PrintMusic, Allegro, SongWriter and NotePad can
Trade up
to Finale.
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