Finale 2004 - Finale® 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.

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Academic / Theological Requirements

This product is intended exclusively for the use of qualified faculty, college students, music ministers and music ministry representatives. Only qualified buyers may purchase this product. Purchase by or transfer to others is prohibited. Refer to the chart below for qualifications.

If you are a:	You must be:	And must provide:
College or University	Fully accredited and nonprofit, with degree-granting programs.	An institutional purchase order or institutional check.
Pre-College School (K-12 in the US)	Fully accredited and nonprofit.	An institutional purchase order or institutional check.
Faculty Member	Currently teaching at a college, university, or pre-college school as defined above. If outside of the US or Canada, you must be employed full time.	A photocopy of a current dated photo ID issued by the school that employs you or another photo ID and a letter verifying current employment on original school letterhead from the school’s administration.
College Student	Currently enrolled in a degree program at a college or university as defined above. If outside of the US or Canada, you must be enrolled full time.	A photocopy of a current dated photo ID issued by the school you attend or another photo ID and a current fee statement.
Church, Synagogue, Music Minister or Music Ministry Representative	Nonprofit with a separate house of worship or currently employed by a church or other religious institution.	Proof of nonprofit status and tax-exempt number and a letter on official letterhead defining the buyer as the church’s official representative.
Private Music Teacher	A current member of the MTNA.	Proof of your current membership: MTNA membership card or MTNA letter of acceptance.

You must complete the purchase agreement, that will arrive with this product, and send it with proof of qualifications to MakeMusic! Full details will be included in your shipment.

Finale 2004 Overview

The ultimate music notation program giving you complete control over every aspect of the printed page while providing powerful control over MIDI input and output. Finale provides unmatched power and flexibility.

For those who want to create more and edit less. Those who want to save time forming musical ideas or building curriculum. Those who want to accelerate from musical inspiration to elegant printed results. Those who want the pride and satisfaction of sharing the music.

New in 2004!

Playback Perfection

• Human Playback - Your music deserves to be heard with all the feeling, phrasing and nuance you felt when you wrote it. The new Human Playback feature will play your music as you would want it to be performed, even if you enter notes manually. And you can choose a variety of musical styles and customize the playback parameters, articulations, range, and much more.
• SmartMusic SoundFont - You want your music to look good. Now it can also sound great with the addition of SmartMusic SoundFont, the same professional grade instrument sounds found in the award-winning SmartMusic Studio practice system. Add this to Finale 2004’s new Human Playback and the results are astounding.
• Save As Audio File - Save As .WAV, .AIFF. Even compressed file formats. Now turn your Finale file into an audio CD! Press one button and save your Finale files into an audio format for recording onto an audio CD. Hear all the nuances of your music through the fabulous sound font from SmartMusic and our Human Playback feature.

Faster Note Entry

• Simple Note Entry
• Instant Drum Grooves
• Improved MicNotator - No MIDI required. This revolutionary technology allows you to enter notation into Finale simply by playing your brass or woodwind instrument. Finale 2004’s new generation of MicNotator is now much more accurate and even easier than ever before. Pick up your clarinet and start making music!

Smart Expression

• Auto Expression Placement
• Mixed Fonts in Expressions

SmartMusic Enhancements

• MulitTimbral Accompaniments - Create SmartMusic Accompaniments containing many instruments primed for SoundFont playback in SmartMusic.
• Performance Markers - Now, you can use expressions to indicate performance markers such as pauses, rehearsal marks and repeats, for SmartMusic Accompaniments saved from Finale.

Lyrics Improvements

• Automatic Word Extensions - Word extensions actually flow into the score automatically and also wrap to the next staff system. If the music expands or contracts, the extensions stretch or shrink to fit.
• Smart Hyphens - Lyric hyphens now wrap to the next staff system automatically. And we improved how lyrics are copied from verse to verse.

Easy Shortcuts

• FinaleScript - This feature could save you days of work. Easily create your own set of commands that Finale will perform with a simple mouse click. Mix several repeated actions into one. Batch file process.
• Smart Page Turns - Getting the music aligned in individual parts for natural page turns used to take careful evaluation and a fair amount of re-positioning measures and staff systems. Now, just tell Finale what to consider, and it does the page turn formatting for you.
• Smart Cue Notes - Give your performers an easier way to recognize their entrances after long multi-bar rests by having Finale automatically create cue notes. Tell Finale what decisions to use in creating cue note entrances, and it does all the work for you.
• Easy Cross-Staff Beaming - Creating cross-staff beaming used to be a multi-click process. Not any more. Just select the notes you want to move to the bass staff.
• Beam Across Barlines

Mac OS X

Finale 2004 will run in “native mode” under Mac OS X. Native Mode provides many benefits, such as:

• Crash Protection: If a program crashes, it will not affect other programs running at the same time, and the system does not need to be restarted.
• Real Virtual Memory: Users do not need to set up memory partitions, and the system will handle virtual memory intelligently.
• Aqua Interface: The standard appearance of Mac OS X.

Finale 2004 is "Carbonized" to run under Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.

Features

Getting Started

• Quick Start Videos - Never before has Finale been so easy to learn. Besides a more intuitive interface, a broader range of short onscreen videos step you through most common functions of Finale.
• Pre-designed scores — Templates - When creating a full score, a worksheet, quiz or even a dissertation, the easiest way to start is simply to open a pre-created template. Over 75 to choose from. Kodály, solfege and more.
• Setting-up your score — Get started fast - Just answer a few questions: What instruments or voices do you want? What key? Time signature? Music font? Tempo? Finale will set up your score, complete with staves in correct order, tempo marking, staff groupings, et al. Nowhere else will you get a setup so complete or so quickly.

Entering Notes

• Simple Note Entry — The need for speed - This tool has been transformed. Create music the way you do with paper and pencil – writing all the music as you go with one utensil. It is all the function of Simple Note as you knew it, plus the power of Speedy Note Entry, with additional control. It may become the way you get most things done in Finale.
  Click notes onto the staff or use MIDI to indicate pitch. Or input notes with the numeric pad and keys ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’ ‘D’ ‘E’ ‘F’ and ‘G.’ Change octave. Enter rests. Add accidentals. Add notes in a chord to an existing note. Create triplets. Now add grace notes. Break and join beams.
  But entering notes is just the start. Enter articulations on the fly or ‘lock-in’ an articulation to place on several notes. Change the key or time signature simply with key commands. Re-pitch existing notes, regardless of their durations, using any of the note-entry methods to re-pitch these rhythms. Change layers or create multiple voice lines on the staff as you write or edit. Best of all, if you prefer certain key commands, change the defaults in Finale to whatever you like.
• Scanning— From sheet music to your music - No other notation program offers scanning as accurate as Finale 2004, with its included SmartScore Lite. And Finale 2004 now imports scanned SmartScore 3.0 and SharpEye files, capturing notes, text, lyrics, chord symbols and more!
• No keyboard required — MicNotator - No MIDI Required. This revolutionary technology allows you to enter notation into Finale simply by playing your brass or woodwind instrument. Finale 2004’s new generation of MicNotator is now much more accurate and even easier than ever before. Pick up your clarinet and start making music!

Hear your music

• Human Playback — Express yourself - Your music deserves to be heard with all the feeling, phrasing and nuance you felt when you wrote it. The new Human Playback feature will play your music as you would want it to be performed, even if you enter notes manually. And you can choose a variety of musical styles and customize the playback parameters, articulations, range, and much more.
• SmartMusic SoundFont® — Bring your music to life - You want your music to look good. Now it can also sound great with the addition of SmartMusic SoundFont, the same professional grade instrument sounds found in the award-winning SmartMusic Studio practice system. Add this to Finale 2004’s new Human Playback and the results are astounding.
• Save as WAV or AIFF — Burn an audio CD - Save As .WAV, .AIFF. Even compressed file formats. Now turn your Finale file into an audio CD! Press one button and save your Finale files into an audio format for recording onto an audio CD. Hear all the nuances of your music through the fabulous sound font from SmartMusic and our Human Playback feature.

Educator Tools

• Exercise Wizard — Quick custom lessons - Create a multi-exercise lesson or warm-up for every instrument or voice in the group in seconds, drawing from over 56,000 pre-created exercises. Select mode, note durations, key intervals, articulations, range and then hit print. Incredibly useful and easy!
• Connecting to Finale NotePad — FREE - Notation software can be used to create up to 8 staves, but can also open a Finale file from the same version. You can even read the most complex Finale family file, edit notes or type in text. Create an assignment or test in Finale, have the students take the test with Finale NotePad. This means as a Finale user, you can now share your music with anyone on the Internet. When they download Finale NotePad, all of your friends, relatives, colleagues, or publishers can play back, print and even edit the music.
• SmartMusic Studio Accompaniment Enhancements

Composing and Arranging Tools

• Auto-arrange — Band-in-a-Box Auto Harmonizing - Auto Harmonizing adds harmonies automatically. Powered by Band-in-a-Box, for years among the most popular music software programs, this incredible FREE plug-in lets you automatically create an entire orchestration from any melody with or without chord symbols.
• Rhythm Section Generator - Harmonizes your melody and creates your piano, bass and drum accompaniments instantly. Choose from four styles—Swing, Ballad, Bebop and Bossa Nova.
• Instant Drum Grooves - Creating custom drum parts has never been easier. Select any region and apply a pre-created drum groove in the style and feel you want. Choose any MIDI file drum groove and add it to your list instantly. In fact, add any MIDI file, period and access it/enter it from this great new plug-in.
• Smart Cue Notes — Never miss an entrance - Give your performers an easier way to recognize their entrances after long multi-bar rests by having Finale automatically create cue notes. Tell Finale what decisions to use in creating cue note entrances, and it does all the work for you.
• Smart Page Turns — Everyone's on the same page - Getting the music aligned in individual parts for natural page turns used to take careful evaluation and a fair amount of re-positioning measures and staff systems. Now, just tell Finale what to consider, and it does the page turn formatting for you.

Professional Notation

• FinaleScript — Take a shortcut - This feature could save you days of work. Easily create your own set of commands that Finale will perform with a simple mouse click. Mix several repeated actions into one. Batch file process.
• SmartFind and Paint — attention to detail - Let’s say your score has a rhythmic motif that is repeated throughout the score in other voices with other pitches. If you want the articulations, dynamics and expressions copied to all those other voices, just select this feature and you have instantly transferred the desired selections right where you need them.
• More Music Fonts — style and substance - Pick the look of your musical symbols from any of eight distinctive notation fonts in Finale 2004.

Point. Click. Edit.

• Selection Tool - A feature that new users love and many experienced users haven’t discovered, Selection Tool allows you to click on virtually anything: note, articulation, clef, smart shape, chord, lyric, text block or tempo marking so you can move, edit or delete as you choose. Point. Click. Edit. It’s that easy.
• Expression Customization - Creating tempo markings like this is easy and now you can edit them just as easily. Many options for expressions have also been added permitting alignment based on either measure or note.
• Contextual Menus - Here’s a marvelous feature of Finale: Contextual Menus provide a wide range of editing features in a pop-up menu when Windows® users right click and Macintosh® users control-click. Here’s one example: click the staff tool to select some music. Right click or control-click and you get a menu of choices for turning the selected music into a one-line staff, blank staff, slash or rhythmic notation, 1- or 5-line percussion staff, and more. Even customize your own staff style. Most tools in Finale now have this great method of instant editing.
• Multiple Undos - Forgiveness is a wonderful trait in a musical partner and so we added it to Finale. Now you can undo any number of your last moves in the current session—even past the point that you saved the document. Applies to all actions including plug-ins.

No Edits Required

• Note Spacing - All notes space themselves automatically as they’re entered. Your job is to compose, Finale’s job is to make it look great!
• Automatic Expression Placement
• Engraver Slurs - Slurs automatically snap to avoid collisions—even after transpositions that cause stems to flip.
• Automatic Lyric Placement - Lyrics space themselves and the notes they’re attached to automatically.
• Automatic Word Extensions - Word extensions actually flow into the score automatically and also wrap to the next staff system. If the music expands or contracts, the extensions stretch or shrink to fit.
• Smart Hyphens - Lyric hyphens now wrap to the next staff system automatically. And we improved how lyrics are copied from verse to verse.

Easy Pickins

• Guitar Tablature/Fretboards
• Import Graphics - Create interest in your music with the addition of graphics. Import TIFF or EPS. Macs can also import PICT.
• Export as a Graphic - Create quizzes, textbooks or worksheets by exporting music into word-processing software. Finale allows you to save as TIFF. Macs can also save as PICT or EPS.

Share and Connect

• Your Music Online — Finale Showcase - Post your music for the world to see, play and print, a free site hosted by MakeMusic! Post your Finale files to your web page or on free Finale Showcase. Anyone can see and play back your music using Finale NotePad. Available for Mac and Windows.
• Connecting to Finale NotePad

What can Finale do for me?

Choral and Instrumental Educators

• Jump-start your score with dozens of customizable templates.
• Customize lessons from 56,000 exercises without entering a single note.
• Enter notes directly from a wind instrument.
• Best sheet-music scanning of any notation program.
• Range-check feature keeps your score’s notes in a performable range.
• Create up to six-part harmonies in a variety of styles with 3 clicks.
• Save files as SmartMusic® Accompaniments. Interpret tempos, transpose and use as rehearsal tool

General Music Educators

• Start quickly with Kodaly, auto-stick and customizable worksheet templates.
• Convert to solfege or rhythmic notation or hide staff lines with a click.

Songwriters/Guitar Players

• Instantly create piano, bass and drum backup to your melody with rhythm section generator.
• Select chords and fretboards or create your own. All will transpose automatically.
• Enter notes directly into TAB staves.
• Copy notes from a companion 5-line staff to TAB or vice versa. Specify lowest fret.
• Use tunings for guitar, bass guitar, lute, sitar, banjo, ukulele, mandolin and others, or create your own.

Higher Education

• Transform dissertations, worksheets and tests with Finale’s graphic import or export capabilities.
• Easily correct tests with hidden layer capability.
• Experiment with melodic, harmonic and rhythmic transitions using compositional plug-ins.

Composers/Arrangers

• Instantly orchestrate your piano score to multiple staves.
• For a handwritten look, use Finale’s Jazz font or 3rd-party fonts to create medieval, Gregorian, Franconian, contemporary, or avant-garde styles. If you can imagine it, Finale can create it.
• Easily type or import lyrics. Unlimited number of verses. Rhyming dictionary.

Music Ministers

• Save time with custom templates: choral, handbell, shaped note, hymnal and contemporary ensembles.
• Notate as you play a MIDI keyboard
• Create multiple harmony parts with auto-harmonizing feature.

Notation Professional

• Finale is the standard for music publishing worldwide. No other program gives you the flexibility and control of Finale.
• Customizing house styles, placements and spacing, stems, lines and curves is simplified.
• Efficiently import Encore® , Rhapsody® and Score® files.

System Requirements

Finale 2004 for Windows

• Windows 98/2000/NT/Me/XP (import and export of EPS files supported under Windows 98, NT, and Me only)
• CD-ROM drive
• 800x600 minimum monitor resolution
• 128MB RAM Minimum
• 200MB hard drive space required for software and user manual

Optional

• MIDI interface
• MIDI input and/or playback device
• Printer
• Scanner
• High-quality computer microphone