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The missing link(ed) parts in Finale

March 16, 2023March 22, 2023

“Part”-y on with this installment of the Conquering Finale video tutorial series, where we discuss linked parts, how they work, and how to manage them effectively within your Finale documents.

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Tackling the text tool in Finale

December 21, 2022December 27, 2022

Like many things in Finale, the text tool offers a lot of power and control, but also many options to navigate. Here’s how to tame the type.

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Perfecting page layout in Finale

November 10, 2022November 15, 2022

Perfect page layout is essential to creating quality output from music notation software. Finale offers a multitude of options to format the music on the page, but understanding where the options are is important in the quest to conquer Finale.

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Dorico 4.1.10 update is available

June 22, 2022June 25, 2022

Steinberg has released Dorico 4.1.10. This update focuses mostly on bug fixes, although there are a few new feature improvements in the areas of staff spacing, flow headings, printing and playing, and the user interface.

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Orchestra librarians want you to know about instrument names

June 20, 2022June 25, 2022

Here’s a video tutorial, with a complete transcript, from Thomas Goss of Orchestration Online on the subject of correctly labeling instrument names and numbers in your score, and its importance to the orchestra staff and librarian.

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Sibelius 2022.5 brings multi-section headers, other workflow boosts

May 26, 2022June 1, 2022

Sibelius 2022.5 is out, making it easier to apply a header or footer on a per-section basis, such as a song or movement. Also added is the ability to define or change the content of a wildcard directly in the score.

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Orchestra librarians want you to know about parts paper sizes

May 3, 2022June 18, 2022

Before you do any work on parts, you’ll want to get one basic parameter from the librarian: the paper size their orchestra prefers for their instrument parts. Here’s a video tutorial from Thomas Goss of Orchestration Online on the subject, with a complete transcript.

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Chronology of a perfect music printing job

January 26, 2022January 29, 2022

How a music printing project gets done flawlessly, from beginning to end, thanks to expert communication and attention to detail from the music preparer — and a few tricks on the printing side.

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Working with master pages in Dorico, part 2

January 21, 2019January 24, 2019

In this second of two posts in a series, we explore working with master pages in Dorico: adding custom master pages, inserting master page changes, and creating additional master page sets.

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Working with master pages in Dorico, part 1

January 3, 2019January 21, 2019

One of Dorico’s most helpful features for score layout is the introduction of master pages. In this first post in a series, we explain the basics of how master pages work and how to edit them.

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