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In
our work over the past years, we have designed
several fonts for music publishing, some with
standard symbols, others more specialized. Having
fully tested them in our own engraving studios, we
have decided to make them available to others who
work with Finale®. They have been designed as a
family, so that while each font has a specific
purpose, they can be used together. However, there
is no need to install all of them. All of these
fonts are available in Trutype and Postscript Type
1 for Macintosh and for PC. Each comes with a
bitmap version in 24 pt or 36 pt (as appropriate):
if installed, this font improves the quality of the
on-screen actual size presentation of the
characters. There is a table of all the keyboard
equivalents and short explanatory notes.
Virtuoso
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4O
EUR
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A
generic character font, designed to
replace Maestro and Petrucci (the standard
Finale® fonts). The characters have
been designed with slightly more generous
hairlines to give the best possible
results on laser printers. Here are some
of the additional characters it offers
(not available in Maestro):
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Charleston
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40
EUR
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A font
offering an improved range of noteheads
for percussion scoring, or other uses; it
also offers symbols for indicating
micro-intervals (quarter- and even
eighth-tones). This means it can replace
Tamburo (which comes as part of the
Finale® package).
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Grupetto
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30
EUR
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A font
offering all the baroque ornaments
(trills, mordents, gruppettos), as well as
italic numbering for triplets, and
fingering numbers.
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Staccato
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30
EUR
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A font
offering a greater range of articulations
than the standard Finale® fonts
(Petrucci or Maestro), tremolos and
inverse tremolos (from simple through
quadruple), glissandos, pedal indications
for organ, as well as a wider range of
pause symbols.
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Vivace
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25
EUR
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A font
for presenting all tempo markings and
rhythmic changes. It also offers a range
of symbols for the harp (chords and
pedals).
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Espressivo
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40
EUR
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A
genuinely musical italic font, covering
all the possible nuances and other useful
markings, as well as a complete italic
alphabet.
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Harmony
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30
EUR
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A
three-level font for numbering harmony
texts. This font offers all the usual
numbers (with and without bars), brackets,
parentheses and Roman numerals for
chords.
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Fingering
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25
EUR
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A font
for presenting all the numberings and
finger-positions for guitar, violin or
piano scores.
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Ars
Nova
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30
EUR
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A font
(whose title is to be taken in the literal
sense and not as a reference to the early
days of polyphony) with a wide range of
symbols for presenting contemporary music
(arrows of all sorts, ondulating lines,
etc.).
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Flamenco
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25 EUR
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A font
for constructing four or five square
diagrams (tablatures) for guitar. This can
replace the standard Seville font which
comes with Finale®, and offers greater
user-choice and flexibility in
constructing tablature.
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Oratorio
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25 EUR
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A font
with capital letters within rectangular,
hexagonal, round or oval borders. Useful
for highlighting divisions and
subdivisions within scores.
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Timpani
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30
EUR
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A font
offering the main pictograms for
percussion instruments, as agreed at the
international conference on musical
notation at Gand (Belgium) in October
1974; includes various other symbols
useful for concrete music.
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