Labels, floating shapes and notations, modern notation shapes.
Download the library file and get them into your score using File>Load Library
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Clef/Key/Time Signature (Expressions)
Insert common signatures and clefs as expressions
Floating Key Signatures (Smart Shapes)
Smart Shape Key Signatures – Ossia style
Floating Manuscript (Smart Shapes)
Movable Smart Shape Manuscript fragments for making pencil sketches etc in the margins…or wherever
Pronged Stems (Articulations)
Articulations to fake altered unisons on a single stem.
Based on Gould’s Behind Bars page 50-51
Annotation Labels (Smart Shapes)
Labels with arrows, inspired by page 83 of the Norton Manual of Music Notation.
Percussion Multimeasure Rest Symbols (Shape Library)
A hack to correct incorrect positioning of the whole rest symbol in 1 line percussion parts.
Load the library to your file, select the offending multi measure rest
Go to Edit > Multimeasure Rests > Edit… (or right click on the rest)
Select the correct shape
(The shapes have hidden numbers to help locate the correct one. These numbers will not print.)
Deselect Stretch Horizontally
Deselect Use Symbols for Rests Less Than:
(Currently available in Finale Maestro(SMuFL) and Maestro fonts 24pt
