Finale Encyclopedia 2. [antikvár]

How to use the FINALE ENCYCLOPEDIA This volume is a musical cookbook. It's a how-to book, arranged alphabetically by musical situation. In other words, you won't find Page layout window, Staff Tool, or HyperScribe listed as entries, because they're all terms you encounter only in Finale. To learn about those and other Finale dialog boxes, windows, and commands, consult Volume 3, Finale Reference. Instead, this book contains entries for musical elements and situations, such as Beaming, Copying music, MIDI channels, Hiding staves, Ritards, and so on. After a brief introduction, each entry includes at least one step-by-step tutorial; broader topics, like Rests, have many such tutorials. Following each bulleted instruction is an explanation of the step you just took, a description of Finale's response to it, or a description of an available detour to another feature. The "how-to's" are devised so that, if you're in a hurry, you can skip the editorial material and just follow the bulleted instructions step-by-step. This volume assumes some familiarity with Finale. In particular, it assumes you've worked through most of Volume 1, Installation & Tutorials. Some of the tutorials in this book, in fact, are pared-down versions of the tutorials in Installation & Tutorials. In some circumstances, then, you may learn the most by reviewing the same topic in both books. The Finale Encyclopedia isn't meant to be a complete guide to Finale itself. Many of Finale's options are advanced, open-ended features that lend themselves more to modern or experimental applications than to the creation and playback of traditional notation. Nonetheless, we've tried to anticipate as many musical problems as we could. You may notice that some information has been repeated in different entries to cut down on the number of times you have to look up a cross-reference. You'll also note that you're occasionally directed to skip a few instructions under certain circumstances; just ignore the intervening bulleted instructions and proceed to the instruction marked by a coda sign ($) instead of a bullet. Here's hoping that this musical cookbook will yield delicious results.