Composing with Finale
- Author: Johnson, Mark
Composing with Finale
- Author: Johnson, Mark
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About
Finale offers all the notation tools required to craft virtually any composition. Unfortunately, the imaginative ways these tools are used sometimes becomes an elaborate composition in itself! Composing with Finale shows you the essentials you'll need in order to make the most of this program's incredible power. Studying Finale from a compositional perspective eases the learning curve overall, transforming Finale into an extension of your imagination. Instead of describing procedures most beneficial to copyists and engravers, this book isolates the methods crucial to working with a composition in progress and how to efficiently translate directly from your mind to the score. Far from a 'point-and-click' guide, Composing with Finale will help you compose more music with one of the most advanced music-composition tools on the market.
Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Taking the Wheel
- Chapter 2: Getting the Best Angle
- Chapter 3: Moving Stuff Around
- Chapter 4: Listen
- Chapter 5: Managing Your Instrumentalists
- Chapter 6: Arranging and Rearranging
- Chapter 7: The Composer's Wild Kingdom
- Chapter 8: Lead Sheets
- Chapter 9: Piano Scores
- Chapter 10: Choral Scores
- Chapter 11: Guitar Scores
- Chapter 12: Percussion
- Chapter 13: Instrumental Ensembles
- Chapter 14: Jazz Band
- Chapter 15: Wrapping Up
- Chapter 16: Unleashing Your Masterpiece
