Finale 98
music notation software

Finale 98 for Macintosh, Windows 95/98/NT. Coda Music Technology (1997)

Reader interaction

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Review

• educational discount

• powerful, flexible

• professional-looking output

• help
   

• steep learning curve

• not intuitive

• too-frequent upgrades

• cost

Previous review

Signell 1991 reviewed eleven music notation programs, among them Finale. Discussion there of criteria for selecting music notation software still holds true mostly. The review you are reading will be updated if Coda later supplies Finale 2000 for review.

References cited

Signell, Karl. 1991. "Music notation software," Journal of the American Musicological Society 44/1:136-148.

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14 January, 2000