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Finale template instructions - all versions
Notate barbershop harmony using prepared templates for Finale, Allegro and PrintMusic software.
Updated: 7/25/2005 12:56:51 PM
Getting started
These templates cover the basic requirements for barbershop harmony arrangements. All fonts have been selected for title, lyrics, measure numbers, etc. This can save you many hours of work.
- Use the PRINT link in the the right column to print these instructions
- Download the appropriate template for male or female voicing
- Read the instructions for using these templates
Male barbershop harmony templates
Download your version:
These templates are for male singers with 4 systems on page one and 5 systems on the following pages. Page and systems margins and measure numbers are “set-up” for you. There is an 8 beneath the treble clef to indicate the pitch transposition for tenors and leads. Entered notes will be properly placed and play back in the right octave.
Female barbershop harmony templates
Download your version:
The female version is for female voices with a page layout just like the male version, but the bass clef is prepared in such manner that notes entered are played where they actually sound in the female arrangements, but are entered into the score an octave lower than played. The playback is set to play those “octave-down” notes where you really want them, up an octave from where they are written.
Using these templates: Finale, Allegro and PrintMusic! Users (Metatools not available for PrintMusic!)
These templates cover the basic requirements for barbershop harmony arrangements. All fonts have been selected for title, lyrics, measure numbers, etc. This can save you many hours of work. When you are ready to type the title, for instance, just click the text tool, and double click the handle that appears on TITLE. A dotted box surrounds the word. Double click the word TITLE in order to highlight it, set caps lock and start typing. It will center itself and put the right size font in for you. If you make the mistake of clicking and deleting the handle, you will have to start all over with the TEXT TOOL, setting the font, etc.
Two choices of copyright notices are there for you. Just delete one and edit the other.
Some other important shortcuts are entered into this template. These are called METATOOLS and are found in the TIME SIGNATURE, ARTICULATION, and STAFF EXPRESSION TOOLS. You must first click the appropriate tool, then hold down a certain key stroke letter or number and click the associated measure for a Time Signature, and an associated note for an Articulation or Staff Expression, as follows: (NOT AVAILABLE IN PrintMusic!)
TIME SIGNATURE
4= 4/4 or Common time
2= 2/4
C= Cut time
6= 6/8
3= 3/4
Just click the measure as you hold down the appropriate key. A Dialog box will appear that has the correct time signature selected. All you have to do is complete the information requested. You may find that measure two now has the default time signature showing. Just double-click the first measure again, get the dialog box and select “from measure 1 to the end of the piece”. If you want a meter change later in the arrangement, you can do that later.
ARTICULATION TOOL:
f= fermata (set so it will flip in the right direction when you drag it up or down.)
x= X (indicating a lead over tenor or bass over bari)
c= caesura (the railroad track breath sign)
b= breath comma
t= triplet (symbol for dotted 8th/16th sung as a triplet)
s= swing beat (symbol for two eighths sung as a triplet)
Each articulation must be associated with a note, just as lyrics and many other FINALE items.
Note the use of alpha/numeric keys for these particular entries:
STAFF EXPRESSION TOOL:
I = Intro
t= Tag
c= Chorus
o= Optional Tag
d= Chorus 1
n= Interlude
e= Chorus 2
f= freely
v= Verse
k= Optional key change
1= Verse 1
a= * (asterisk for indicating a footnote, etc.)
2= Verse 2
r= Reprise
***Notes can be entered in a variety of ways, but must be assigned a layer number for each part. In these templates, the lead and bass notes are assigned layer one, in each of their respective staffs, and their stems have been frozen down. Tenor and baritone parts are assigned layer two, with stems frozen in the up position. Layer one in the treble staff is totally independent from layer one in the bass staff, and the same goes for the layer two assignments. You can have complete control over playback characteristics of each part. Just click WINDOW on the tool bar, click INSTRUMENT LIST, click staff, then layer, etc. I have found it much simpler just to work with the two layers. I save Layers three and four for any optional notes and make them 70% size with the % Tool.
Additionally, I have set playback for trombones, my favorite playback sound, and put each part on a separate channel for isolation or for making part predominant learning tapes. From the EXPRESSION TOOL menu, select ffff and attach it to a note in the layer you wish to emphasize.
Have Fun!
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