Finale Libraries

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.