How to get there
Click the Selection Tool 
, and select a region of measures. If you’re about to
copy or move an element of the music, choose Edit Filter from the Edit
Menu. After the Edit Filter dialog box appears click Entries.
What it does
This dialog box lets you modify the music
you’re copying in a number of useful ways. For example, you can transpose
the copy, rebeam its beamed notes into new patterns, or freeze all of
its stems up or down.
- Check
Accidentals. If this box is selected, Finale will inspect the usage
of accidentals in the copied music, making sure that any note tied over
from a previous measure doesn’t show an accidental, but that a recurrence
of that note (if it is a non-diatonic note) later in the measure does.
It’s the equivalent of the Check Accidentals command (see Utilities
Menu).
- Freeze
Stems • Up • Down. When you select Freeze Stems, the Up and Down
buttons become available; click one to "freeze" all stems in
the copied passage in the same direction.
- Reanalyze
Harmonics. This option tells Finale to restore any chromatic notes
to their default enharmonic "spellings" (if you’ve edited them)
when it creates the copy.
- Rebeam.
When you click this box, the Rebeam to Time Signature dialog box appears,
in which you can specify a new beaming pattern for the eighth notes (and
smaller values) in the copied material.
- Remove
Reverse, Split, Double and Freeze Stemming. Select this option
if, in the process of copying music, you want to remove any special stemming
you created with the Reverse Stem, Double/Split Stem, and Freeze Stem
tools of the Special Tools Tool. This
option restores all stem directions to "floating" status, so
that they can flip up or down depending on their staff location.
- Transpose.
When you click this checkbox, the Transposition dialog box appears, where
you can specify a transposition for the copied material. See Transposition
dialog box.
- OK
• Cancel. Click OK to proceed with the music copying, or Cancel
to abandon it.
For example, the
First banjo plays the same notes as the Second banjo, but up a diatonic
Third. Choose to Transpose as you copy the music onto the Clipboard.
See Also:
Selection
Tool
