THE WORLD S BEST-SELLING MUSIC NOTATION SOFTWARE 2003 E A S Y-TO -USE POWE RF UL TOOL S TWO-TIME WINNER "We use Finale because it is the best. Enough said." Wynton Marsalis
Finale has triumphed again as the most noteworthy music-scoring program. Editor, Electronic Musician Editor s Choice Award - 2001 / Editor s Choice Award - 2002 Finale is the world for creating, "I feel like I can now get more done before breakfast than I used to do in a full day, and it just keeps getting better. Josh Siegel, Composer/Arranger, Radio City Orchestra "Finale gets more efficient more elegant, more powerful and easier with every new version. This is the best yet." Hayes Biggs, notation and engraving course instructor, Manhattan School of Music, New York
Oh man, Finale has made my life easier. Harry Connick, Jr. Finale...the Industry Standard because of its power and ease of use. President/COO Warner Bros. Publications standard editing and printing sheet music. I have compared all music notation softwares and Finale is simply the best! Otto Romanovski, Lecturer and Composer, SIBELIUS Academy Used by more music educators, composers, students, performers and music ministers than any other notation program. Visit www.finalemusic.com or call 800.843.2066 to locate your nearest Finale dealer.
Introducing Finale 2003 Four simple steps to 1 Pick your instrument in the Setup Wizard Automatically creates title, composer and copyright information staves in the correct order for the instruments or voices you pick time and key signature brackets for staff groupings correct key in staves for transposing instruments staff names on page one abbreviated staff names on pages two and beyond tempo marking + more... 2 Enter notes your way Select a note and click on a staff. The pitch plays and notes space automatically. Notate as you play a solo acoustic instrument. No other notation program lets you do this so easily. Type notes on a computer keyboard or in combination with a MIDI keyboard. Notate as you play your MIDI instrument. Play onto one staff or two staves simultaneously. Hear other staves as you play. Scan printed sheet music and open it with the FREE SmartScore Lite, capturing notes on multi-voice staves more accurately than any other built-in scanning. Import MIDI, Encore, Score, SharpEye, SmartScore and Rhapsody files. 3 Play your score Violin staves sound like violins and flutes sound like flutes. Dynamics & articulations play back giving a full performance.
absolutely beautiful sheet music Quick Revisions: use the all-purpose Selection tool. Click on almost anything on the screen to move, change or delete it. Need Help? Quick Start Videos give you answers right on the screen. New Interface! Choose from over 7 various interface designs! Large, medium or small icons. Also, choose from 25 different background graphics or create your own. Jazz Blue Classic Cool Gray Contemporary Glass 4 Print or Post Print the full score or sections and publish on the Internet. Save as a web page or to Finale Showcase (free web site for sharing music). Jazz Maroon Globe (for Macintosh only) Visit www.finalemusic.com or call 800.843.2066 to locate your nearest Finale dealer.
Scanning has arrived! Best Accuracy Scanning NEW FREE SMARTSCORE LITE SCANNING offers the best accuracy at the lowest cost. Scanning has finally arrived! No other notation program offers better scanning accuracy. Case closed. original 5 easy edits NEW FEATURES: Secondary voice recognition of counterpoint Correct transposed instrument recognition Multiple page scans Correct page formatting including system and staff sizes Up to 32nd-note resolution Substantially increased accuracy FINALE SCAN 30 difficult edits PHOTOSCORE LITE SCAN (another notation product s software) voicing change. + SmartScore and SharpEye If you want to bring in slurs, expressions and articulations, we offer you direct translation of the two best stand-alone scanning programs: SmartScore and SharpEye*. * Currently Windows only. Uses FREE Music XML Lite plug-in to convert SharpEye files.
Educators rejoice! Choir Teachers REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY YOU TEACH MUSIC SmartMusic 7.1 subscription service and Finale 2003 together can shorten rehearsal time and increase the quality of the musical performance. Learn more at www.smartmusic.com. Now you can have SATB playback with parts individually selectable for student practice, and have customized, interpreted accompaniment at all times for choir rehearsal. SCENARIO: You have just picked a new song for the choir and want it learned quickly. 1) Scan it into Finale 2003. 2) Save as a SmartMusic 7.1 file. 3) Open it in SmartMusic 7.1 and interpret the tempos and rubatos as desired. General Music Teachers TIME-SAVING TEMPLATES Your students can practice their alto part with full SmartMusic accompaniment at school. The rehearsal can continue at night with the new affordable SmartMusic subscription installed at home. If they have trouble with their notes, they can turn off the STB parts and sing along with just their alto part. Next they can add back the STB parts one at a time as they continue to master their alto part. Finally they can remove the alto part and sing along with the STB parts just like they need to do in choir! All the while, they can record themselves and assess their progress. They can even e-mail their performance and send it to you for analysis. Finally, the whole choir can rehearse as an ensemble using the SmartMusic accompaniment with your interpretation. Templates for Worksheets, Kodály and Auto-Stick Notation come ready for you to use. Instantly turn this: into this! in seconds... create this Visit www.finalemusic.com or call 800.843.2066 to locate your nearest Finale dealer.
Indiana University University of Tennessee, Knoxville The Juilliard School perfect for educators... Oberlin Conservatory of Music UCLA Band and Orchestra Finale s Auto-arrange Explode feature allows you to instantly expand music from one or two staves into full-score orchestrations Unlimited staves, clefs, time signatures, note-head styles, symbols and more Educational Play your acoustic instrument into a microphone, and see Finale s exclusive MicNotator feature accurately notate your performance Automatic part extraction; instrument range checking; apply articulations over any selected area automatically Practice ear training and do homework Use educator templates to create worksheets and exams in Finale, or easily export music examples to word processors or desktop publishing programs Finale for $75 Finale site licenses are only $75 per station when you buy the minimum of 16 units and cost even less when you upgrade. Vocal Automatic syllable alignment and word extensions If your school, church or institution has multiple single versions of Finale, now s the time to combine them into a site license. For example: If you have 7 units of Finale, buy 9 more at $75 each to add up to 16 units. It s that easy. (Prices subject to change without notice.) Type lyrics directly into a score or import full verses from a text file with a single click Unlimited number of verses with mixed fonts
Berklee School of Music Sibelius Academy Northwestern University Oconomowoc, Wisconsin School District University of North Texas Manhattan School of Music Instantly Create Custom Lessons from over 56,000 exercises 1. Select an exercise. If you have only five minutes before rehearsal begins, and you need warm-up exercises tailored to the needs of your band or ensemble, you re in luck. You can create an exercise or lessons in an instant. Customize the perfect lesson to work out a particular problem area in seconds. 2. Select the key and articulations. 3. You can also customize your ensemble and number of copies. Finale will produce every part for you. Share your Finale files with anyone with Finale NotePad Finale NotePad, a stand-alone notation program, is now available as a FREE download at www.finalenotepad.com. Students can create, hear, print out and rehearse parts at home. Whether you have Mac or Windows, you can share your music with everyone!* *To share files, open in the same or later version. Deliver exercises, assignments or tests via e-mail. Visit www.finalemusic.com or call 800.843.2066 to locate your nearest Finale dealer.
Steve Vai perfect for... IRCAM Eric Marienthal WORD Publishing Harry Potter, The Chamber of Secrets George Benson Guitar NEW SELECTION OF FRETTED INSTRUMENTS Choose your instrument from the Setup Wizard and enter your music. There is little left to do. Auto chord symbols and fretboards transpose and play back Analyzes your music and adds correct chord symbols Auto tablature 7 styles of chord symbols via MIDI Create your own fretboards There are thousands of new fret diagrams to choose from. And you can create multiple fretboards for named chords and save them in transposable groups. Guitar TAB Enter notes directly into TAB staves, or between a companion Standard Notation Staff and a TAB staff. Specify the lowest fret to use as you paste. Once the music is in the TAB staff, it is incredibly easy and intuitive to edit. For example, to change a fret number from 2 to 3, just select the note and type 3. Up and Down arrow keys move a selected number to other strings. Numbers appear in orange when out of fret range.
A Beautiful Mind Chuck Israel Wynton Marsalis JoAnne Kane Music Service Harry Connick, Jr. EMI Schott Musik International Piano Mid-measure clefs, cross-staff and cross-bar beaming Smart pedal, articulation and dynamic markings MIDI files import into two staves with adjustable split point Sacred Hymnal, Choral, Shape Note and Handbell templates included All MIDI performance data, including counterpoint, is recorded and available for playback Finale s Auto-arrange Explode feature allows you to expand a piano score into SATB or create a piano reduction for rehearsal in one simple move Most popular hymnals are created with Finale Avant-Garde Whatever you can imagine, Finale can create Alphonse Leduc & Cie. Visit www.finalemusic.com or call 800.843.2066 to locate your nearest Finale dealer.
Just a few Finale exclusives... Start with a melody: Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing adds Harmonies Instantly! Powered by Band-in-a-Box, for years among the most popular music software programs, this incredible FREE plug-in lets you automatically create an entire orchestration from any melody with or without chord symbols. and in just two clicks you ll have this! with one more simple click The new Rhythm Section Generator Create your piano, bass and drum accompaniments instantly. Choose from four styles Swing, Ballad, Bebop and Bossa Nova.
SmartFind and Paint one simple click If you have frequently repeated rhythmic patterns that require the same slurring, articulations and expressions, this feature will save you hours. Select a group of notes with a desired articulation and SmartShape pattern and mark that pattern as a style. Then simply apply to any other selected style applied region even an entire part or score! SmartFind and Paint will search out all rhythmically identical regions and place slurs, expressions, articulations, etc. instantly. The Simplest Note Entry Imaginable Place a sharped, dotted quarter note in one easy motion. With easy-toremember keys, Simple Note Entry is incredibly intuitive. The cursor always shows exactly what you ve selected. Then just click and drag to move a note or rest. The World s Smartest Engraver Slurs No collisions with stems, beams or accidentals even after transposing or part extraction! And it s never been easier to alter slurs. You can even create beautifully shaped S slurs! Unedited slurs in Sibelius, Overture and other programs. Finale slurs know where the notes and accents are. Visit www.finalemusic.com or call 800.843.2066 to locate your nearest Finale dealer.
ALL ABOUT FINALE features questions? www.finalemusic.com CHECK OUT HUNDREDS OF PLUG-INS FOUND AT WWW.FINALEMUSIC.COM Operating Systems - Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP or Macintosh (8.6 or higher) help tools and palettes note entry playback MIDI settings the details Navigation View a score in either scroll view (continuous staff) or page view (staves arranged on page). Reduce a view down to 5%, or enlarge it up to 1000%. Use on-screen rulers to position score elements. Open any number of scores at once, limited only by memory. View each window in any fashion desired (page or scroll view, magnification, and measure location). Display individual score elements in different colors for easy access. Shift easily between a score window and individual part views. Change pages, or move to the first, last or specified measure, with simple controls. Define as many as eight different staff sets for viewing selected instruments in a score. Choose from seven distinctly different interface designs. How to get help Easy start-up instructions. Installation and Tutorial manual for easy start-up. FREE on-screen tutorials that show and tell you how to do almost everything. Comprehensive, printable on-line documentation with "Hot Links." On-screen Message Bar identifies tools and their uses. Instrument "Setup Wizard" provides very easy score set-up with full page layout and instrument transposition. Context-sensitive Help provides online documentation of commands and options. Quick Reference Card provides easy access to most common keystrokes/tasks. Set up vocal or instrumental score, initial key and time signatures, page size, music font, pick-up measure and initial tempo markings via the Setup Wizard or Choose from over 50 pre-designed score templates to help you quickly prepare professional scores. Includes Kodály, instant Tonic Sol-fa conversion plus most Band, Orchestra, Choral and Church music set-ups. Tools and Palettes Main Tool Palette Use the main tool palette to control music entry, editing and page layout. Use Message Bar to identify tools and their uses. Use "Click And Go" Note Entry for instant Real and Step-time note entry. Size and position the tool palettes to fit the way you work. Dockable palettes for a "cleaner" look. Reposition tools within the palette according to your preference. Show only the tools you need, or display all the tools. Note and Smart Shape Palettes Use a note or rests palette to click notes, accidentals and rests onto the staff. Use a smart shape palette to place a predefined expression onto the score. Note entry One note at a time Enter pitches using a mouse. Enter pitches using an acoustic instrument. Enter pitches using a MIDI instrument. Enter pitches with the arrow keys. Enter pitches with the letter keys. Select rhythmic values from a palette and position them with a mouse. Select rhythmic values from a MIDI keyboard. Enter rhythmic values with the numeric keypad. Position them with the mouse. Position them with the arrow keys. Select notes and shapes using floating, resizable tool palettes. Playing notes in Notate as you play a single melody acoustic instrument. Notate as you play a MIDI instrument with a computer-supplied beatmetronome. OR speed up and slow down with a user supplied beat via Finale's HyperScribe. Notate while playing back other staves - sequencing. Capture music as you play, then convert to notation later. Record one "track" while playing back others. Accurately notate tuplets, jazz rhythms, and tempo changes. Scanning sheet music Uses FREE SmartScore Lite software by Musitek (included) to scan existing sheet music. Directly open SmartScore and MidiScan 3.0 and files. Open SharpEye scanning files via included Music XML plug-in. Importing MIDI files Quantize before or after opening. "Retranscribe" (re-quantize) any section after opening. Import all MIDI data if desired. Automatically notates percussion staves correctly. Automatic exercise creation Pick from existing ensembles or customize and save your own. Open any of 56,000 exercises, select the desired key and articulation patterns you want. Then print. All parts instantly print in the appropriate transposition and range. Music Capacity Enter rhythmic values from a double-whole note to a 128th note. Create any multiple of staves and measures up to 32,768. Enter an unlimited number of notes per measure. Define up to four layers of music per staff with two independent voices per layer. Number of staff lines per staff from 0 to 100. Play back your score Play your score through a MIDI instrument, Sound Module, Sound Card or internal computer speaker. Play a note, chord, phrase, selected staves or an entire score. Scroll music on-screen during playback in Page view or Scroll view. Use easy on-screen playback controls to play any range of measures at a specified tempo. Define playback sounds of each staff, layer of music and/or chord symbols. Easily assign a MIDI channel or patch, and play/solo/mute setting for each staff. Map multiple staves to the same instrument sound. Play back repeats, dynamics, tempo changes and chord symbols. Define playback of interpretive marks, text and shapes. Play back the music as notated. Play back as performed - the original MIDI performance of the score - including key velocity, pitchbend, rubato and more.
Control your MIDI settings Setup Wizard automatically assigns General MIDI patches and channels. Edit individual MIDI events in a graphic window. Define two sets of 16 MIDI channels and up to 64 instruments. Program the percent of "swing feel" for playback. Record and play with a resolution of 1024 pulses per quarter note. "Minimize Rests" gives notes full value even if played too short so that unwanted rests never appear. Save multiple MIDI/instrument set-ups. The details Key Signatures, Time Signatures and Barlines Easily set up Key and Time Signatures using the Setup Wizard. Automatic final barline. Use standard or non-standard key signatures. Use different time and key signatures in each staff. Specify separate time signatures for display and beaming control. Create complex time signatures. Hide key and time signatures if desired. Ignore the key signature on individual staves (e.g., percussion staves). Define your own scales and microtonality. Automatically place double barlines before all key changes and a final barline at the end of the score. Clefs Choose from eight predefined clefs: Treble Alto Tenor Bass Percussion Treble ottava bassa Bass ottava bassa Baritone (F) Other clefs include: Soprano Mezzo-soprano Baritone (C) Treble 8va French violin Bass 8va Alternate percussion Blank Define your own clefs. Place multiple clefs within measures. Beams, Stems and Noteheads Control cross-staff and cross-measure beaming, beam width, rests within beam groups and more. Independently position noteheads and stems if desired. Define your own noteheads; change the shape of any notehead. Text Create and position titles, credits, copyright notices and other text. Place large blocks of text with a builtin text editor. Cut, copy and paste text. Create and edit text blocks on any view. Control font, size, style and alignment. Independently specify the alignment, position and font for any staff name. Flow text into and around irregularly shaped graphics. Lyrics Type lyrics directly onto the score. Create lyrics all at once and click onto the score one syllable or verse at a time. Automatically align lyrics with notes. Shift lyrics right or left by syllables. Align and Justify Lyrics either globally or syllable by syllable. Respace notes to automatically avoid collisions of lyrics. Easily create word extensions. Rhyming dictionary included. Mix fonts, sizes and styles as needed. Chord Symbols, Guitar Fretboards and Notation Select and place chord symbols easily. Play chords on a MIDI instrument for automatic analysis and labeling. Automatically determine chords across one or two staves. Create and edit your own chord symbols, including alternate bass indication. Automatic Tablature. Customize fretboard diagrams and save in transposable groups. Use positioning guides to accurately place chord symbols. Center or left-align chord symbols. Mix fonts, font sizes and styles (English, Nashville, Roman, German, etc.) within chord symbols. Enter notes directly in TAB staves. Notate TAB as you play a MIDI guitar. Create your own TAB styles. Notate bends, stair steps, double bends, pull-offs, hammer-ons and releases. Guitar Tablature via Staff Tool. Copy/paste between normal notation and TAB staves. Automatically transpose chord symbols with changes in key. Play back chord symbols via MIDI. Automatically add guitar fretboards. Music Editing Select any group of notes for editing, including partial measures. Cut, copy and paste between windows. Insert, copy, clear and delete music. Using the Selection Tool, double-click most items for immediate access. Reposition any symbol, character, graphic or text anywhere on the page simply by dragging it. Transpose, rebar, rebeam and apply other changes to music with a single command. Select and position articulation markings, text and dynamics. Apply "smart articulations" with automatic positioning and stem direction sensitivity. Re-quantize any notes in any region entered from any note-entry method. Multiple Undo even past the last "Save." Respace notes and rests within measures. Adjust measure widths. Control stem direction individually if desired. Use any of six predefined adjustable staff brackets. Add graphic repeat signs and text repeat markings. Reduce a score, page, staff system, note group or single note down to 5%, or enlarge it up to 1,000%. Transpose using chromatic, diatonic, enharmonic or modal methods. Control the exact placement of each part of a beat. Adjust ties, slurs, crescendos and diminuendos. Automatically avoid collisions of mid-score and mid-measure clefs, seconds and unisons when using layers. Add rehearsal marks and measure numbers, then emphasize them with ovals or rectangles. Create custom staves. Create your own articulations. Manage your score Optimize the conductor's score by hiding empty staves. Extract individual parts, with separate page layout control for each part, and create automatic multimeasure rests. "Implode" scores to create instant piano reductions. "Explode" scores to create instant orchestrations. Protect scores with automatic backup. Exporting and importing graphics files Import and export TIFF, EPS, PICT and WMF files. Use the Shape Designer to draw your own musical graphics. Create lines, ovals, rectangles, polygons and curves. Control line thickness, fills, object grouping and more. Assign a playback meaning to any graphic. Control curve resolution and thickness on non-postscript printers. Laying out your page Create pages up to 118 miles by 118 miles (large pages can be "tiled"). Control the layout of individual staff systems and page margins. Move lyrics, chords, expressions, titles, text blocks and other elements. On-score page layout with snap-to grid and guidelines for easy, exact alignment of all score elements. Fit selected measures into staff systems. Insert staff systems into your music while keeping the rest of your systems intact. Insert staff systems into your music while reflowing measures across systems and pages. Easily set the distance between a staff system and the staff system above. Set or Clear Page Breaks at any Staff System. Set the number of systems for one page, a range of pages or all pages. Fit measures into staff systems. Indent staff systems and adjust systems horizontally or vertically. Reduce or enlarge a score. Printing your score Print on virtually all PostScript or non- PostScript printers. Color printing, if desired, of layers, smart shapes, score and staff expressions, articulations, text and lyrics and chords. Includes these music fonts: Maestro, Maestro Wide, Engraver, Petrucci and Jazz Fonts. Use any 3rd-party music font. Compile PostScript listings for efficient downloading and printing on systems without Finale installed. Publish on the Web Save any file as a web page and post that file to any website. Post Finale web page files to MakeMusic's Finale Showcase website. Customize the features you allow end users to access. Allow/disallow: Saving Printing Playback Scrolling View multiple pages Transposition by key or instrument. Using the Finale Web Viewer, view, play, transpose and print. Visit www.finalemusic.com or call 800.843.2066 to locate your nearest Finale dealer.
Point. Click. Score. It s that easy. FINALE FAMILY OF PRODUCTS Finale is now available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese and Dutch. 2003 The industry standard. Unmatched in its power and flexibility Simple, yet professional. Easy and powerful. Notates as you play with full MIDI features. Produce top-quality sheet music quickly. Create your own composition or start with a MIDI file. FREE entry-level notation software. Notate up to 8 staves or open files from the Finale Family. (www.finalenotepad.com) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows : Windows 98/2000/NT/ME/XP Macintosh : System 8.6 or higher Both: CD-ROM drive. 64MB RAM minimum (depending on OS), 128MB RAM recommended. 70MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. Optional: MIDI interface, MIDI input and/or playback device, printer, scanner, higher-quality computer microphone. FILE COMPATIBILITY Import scores from Finale, Allegro, PrintMusic!, NotePad. Keeps all data and settings. Import scores from Encore and Rhapsody. Keep all data and settings. Import scores from SCORE. Convert TIFF files of scanned sheet music into notation. Directly convert SmartScore, SharpEye and MIDISCAN scanned music files into Finale notation files Read and write standard MIDI files. Export EPS, TIFF or PICT (Macintosh only) files. Share files between Macintosh and Windows platforms. Open same or previous version Finale, Allegro, PrintMusic! and NotePad files. Import any WMF (Windows only), TIFF, PICT (Macintosh only) or EPS graphics files. Save score as a SmartMusic file. CD-ROM To locate a dealer near you, please contact us: 6210 Bury Drive Eden Prairie, MN 55346-1718 tele: (952) 937-9611 (800) 843-2066 fax: (952) 937-9760 For more info on products visit www.finalemusic.com. 9F03BR