Augmentation

Augmentation refers to the process of doubling a motif’s rhythmic values, so that each quarter note becomes a half note, and so on. In effect, the following process re-notates any passage so that it doubles every note’s value.

To double the rhythmic values in a passage

1. Click the Selection Tool and select the region of music you want to affect. See Selecting music for some region-selecting shortcuts.
2. From the Utilities Menu, choose Change, then Note Durations. The Change Note Durations dialog box appears.
3. Choose 200% from the Change All Note Durations by popup menu. If you want Finale to re-bar the selected measures so that there are half as many notes per measure, make sure Rebar Measures is selected. See Change Note Durations dialog box for details on these options.
4. Click OK (or press return). You can even double the values of the notes in a specific layer (if Show Active Layer Only is selected in the Document Menu).

Note that this command does not affect empty measures. (A measure in which you’ve entered a “real” whole rest doesn’t count as empty in this context.) That is, the command will double the values of all notes and rests you’ve entered, but it won’t create a second completely empty measure.