Composing with Finale

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! This book shows you the essentials you will 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; how to efficiently translate directly from your mind to the score. Far from a "point and click" guide, this book will help you compose more music with one of the most advanced music composition tools on the market.