Multiple lines, centered vertically with a single staff. – To achieve this, simply add a return between each name as you type (e.g. In Finale 2011 or earlier, enter the names in the Staff Attributes dialog for each instrument. To align all instrument names right (or center), exit the Score Manager, then choose Staff > Set Default Name Positions as outlined above. In Finale 2012 or later, go to the Score Manager by typing Control-K (Windows) or Command-K (Mac), select the instrument and type the name in a single string, without carriage returns. This can be used for one or more of the same instrument type on the staff: This is the default produced by Finale for a single staff. Single Line, centered vertically with the staff. Let’s take a look at the common instrument name placements / formats you might find in a published score:
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While the Staff Attributes Dialog looks a bit different in Finale 2012 and Finale 2011, you can change the individual staff’s Full Staff Name Position and Abbreviated Staff Name Position here:įor both the Staff > Set Default Positions and the Staff Attributes Dialog, the actual numerical positions relative to the staff will of course depend on justification, font size, number of lines and other factors. You can globally change the positioning of both the Full Staff Names and the Abbreviated Staff Names here:įinale also allows you to override the global staff name positioning settings on a per staff basis. In Finale, you control staff name position (including justification) globally from Staff > Set Default Name Positions. You also occasionally see instrument names left-aligned, for instance in band music, but this is much less common. For this reason, right – alignment is increasingly becoming more common, at least in large orchestral scores: Shorter names to appear too far from the left edge of the system if other names on the system are much wider. While this placement works nicely for a string quartet or quintet, consider a piece which has both “Flute” and “Contrabass Clarinet in Bb”. In older publications, instrument names are traditionally centered in a column, to the left of the system. If you review typeset works by different publishers, you’ll discover there are several different concurrent standards for placing instrument names in a full score. My goal with this blog post is to show you the proper way to achieve these standard placements in Finale, and hopefully, ultimately save you some time in the bargain. Instrument names is an area where I’ve seen a number of interesting workarounds.
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As a professional music copyist, I’m always interested in the alternate solutions and workarounds that composers and arrangers use in Finale to achieve specific tasks.
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