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Writing Music with Finale is an online course aimed at helping
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musicians of all levels to use Finale to create clear notation very
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quickly. In twelve weeks, it covers the tools necessary for most types
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arrangements. Questions?

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likely been reminded of the great distance between the printed page
and human musical expression. The simple dots and lines of Contact Advisors
notation are put to the extraordinary service of communicating our
subtlest and most sublime ideas. The way that notation is executed
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has a direct effect on the magic that ensues: whether a sound is a
consonance or a dissonance, whether the crescendo begins before For-credit tuition: $1,400

or after a downbeat, and even the general impression of whether a Non-credit tuition: $1,200
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piece seems technically easy or complex.
Credits: 3
The ability to create clear music notation quickly is essential for any Duration: 12 weeks
musician who prepares music to be performed by others. Catalog #: BMW-101a
Increasingly, musicians are turning to high-end notation software
such as Finale to prepare their notation. They are often surprised to
discover that such programs are among the most difficult to learn of Course Faculty

any software that they have ever encountered.

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The reason for this is that music notation is such an extremely Editor in chief of
sophisticated form of communication. Those of us who grew up Berklee Press

reading notation may lose sight of this, but it is a deceptively

complex language, where hundreds of symbols, standards, and
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direction are used to communicate subtle—arguably mystical
Writing Music with Finale is an
—ideas. Beyond communicating standard notes and rhythms, in
online course aimed at helping
music notation, we can tell our readers to play lightly or quickly, to
musicians of all levels to use
put their second finger on the third string—even when to breathe.
Finale to create clear notation
The world of articulations is vast, with special symbols for each
very quickly. In twelve weeks, it
instrument. Roadmap directions—segnos, codas, repeat covers the tools necessary for
endings—are so common in published music, but so vaguely most types of notation, from lead
understood by so many practicing musicians. sheets to rhythm-section and
orchestral arrangements. Read
To support this depth of vocabulary, notation software must be
more
similarly deep. And this means that learning to use these software
tools takes time, and training beyond what the best software
manuals can provide. Every musician’s notation needs are different. Student Comments
A choral director will use different symbols than does a hip-hop “The course moved at a good
bassist. Finale supports all such symbols, but learning how to use pace for beginners but fast
them effectively isn’t always easily evident. enough for those more familiar
with the Finale software. The
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