Berklee Press Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation, Second Edition (Book)

A complete guide to Finale music notation.

Finale: An Easy Guide to Music Notation, Second Edition by Thomas Rudolph and Vincent Leonard is designed for both novice and experienced users to master Finale and fully understand all its remarkable capabilities. You will learn how to create publisher-quality music notation; use the tools of Finale while writing your own music and arrangements; get started immediately with hundreds of professional templates, partially completed notation files, and libraries available on the companion website; print transposed parts from scores automatically; write standard notation, guitar tablature, drum set parts; and more. This book will help teachers create warmup and practice exercises; write your own compositions, arrangements, and method books; and simplify parts for students.

The companion website at www.finalebook.com includes tutorial files; samples of partially completed and finished music notation files for each of the hundreds of hands-on exercises in the book; libraries of articulations and dynamics; additional chapters; and professional templates: Choral, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, Orchestra, Single Line and Grand Staff, Pit and Show, and Sketch and Utilities templates including a Cue Sheet for radio and TV.

Master Finale today with this step-by-step guide!