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Finale Music
Notation Software

FinaleŽ is the world standard for creating, editing and printing sheet music. Used by more educators, composers, students, performers and music ministers than any other notation program. Finale 2005 elevates the notation software experience—providing simpler, richer and more intuitive interaction for unsurpassable results in creating, customizing and sharing printed music. The 2005 version is the easiest Finale to use ever. If you have used earlier versions, you will see a marked difference in the ease of use in today's Finale. From student to superstar, Finale will exceed your expectations. Runs on Macintosh or PC computers.

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Create Music Quickly with Finale

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Easy Score Setup

Select your instruments or voices, specify the key and time signatures, and the score is set-up automatically. Or start from an existing ensemble. Or use one of 68 professional templates.
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Six Ways to Enter Notes

Select a note. Click it onto the staff. Notes space automatically. Notate as you play a solo acoustic instrument. Type notes on your computer keyboard with or without MIDI.

Notate as you play using a MIDI keyboard, with or without a click track. Scan printed sheet music. It opens automatically with SmartScore Lite. Import MIDI or Internet files. Also imports Encore files.

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Edit Your Music
Use Finale's vast array of powerful tools to edit your music as desired. You can cut, copy & paste from meaure to measure or line to line, change keys, change clefs, transpose, expand or contract rhythmic elements, add graphics, lyrics, guitar frames, chord changes, titles or instructions. Add dynamics and articulations and Finale will play them for you. You have total control over every aspect of your music. Called "The most powerful music notation software..." by PC Magazine, Finale gives you the same power that major music publishers have when engraving their own music.

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Hear Your Music Come to Life
Your music deserves to be heard with all the feeling, phrasing and nuance you felt when you wrote it. Finale will play your music as you would want it to be performed, even if you enter notes manually. With Finale's included SmartMusic® SoundFont, trumpet staves sound like trumpets and flutes sound like flutes. Dynamics and expressions are interpreted. And you can choose a variety of musical styles and customize the playback parameters.

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Print, Publish or Create an Audio CD

Print the whole score or parts; publish on the Internet on your web page or to Finale Showcase; a free web site for sharing music. Even save your music as an audio file and create your own CDs.

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