Student Instructions

Introduction

Student Directions

Exercises:

Level One

Level Two

Music Virtual Center

You will be using Finale music notation software on this assignment. You will be working with two files: a worksheet file on which you will notate your answers, and a playback file which you will use for playing the examples.

In Finale, you will be opening the playback controls window, which plays back the contents for whichever window is active.

1. In Finale, open the file 4a.mus. Then open file 1-4b.mus and minimize it (click the minus sign in the upper right corner). The file 4a will remain on the screen, with a small bar representing the minimized playback file 1-4b. Choose view/page view so that you can see the text and labels in this file. Save the file onto your own disk or network drive immediately. 
2. Next, open the playback controls by choosing window/playback controls from the upper menu. Choose the measures you wish to hear (the starting and ending measures of the example) by clicking on the options button of the playback controls. To make sure the metronome sounds correctly, be sure the synthesizer module is set on multitimbral setting, [give directions for using other equipment, or the computer soundcard, if necessary].

3. To play back the examples: Put on the headphones. Click on the file you wish to hear (1-4b), then click play. Finale will play back the measures you have selected in step 3 above. You may change the playback tempo by choosing options/tempo and changing the tempo value by using the mouse and the keyboard.

To hear your own notation, click anywhere on your file and then click play on the playback controls. Be sure you haven’t inadvertently added a note to your file when you click on it. If necessary, click edit/undo.

4. To notate your answers: click on the simple note entry tool (it looks like an eighth note) on the main tool pallette. Move the simple note entry tool bar to a handy location near the staff with which you are working. Then click the note value on the tool bar and click on the proper place on the staff. A note will appear on the staff. To change a note to a rest, click it again. To change it back to a note, click the rest. To erase a note or a rest, click on the erase tool icon on the simple note entry tool bar, then click on the item you wish to erase.

5. To save your work: simply choose file/save, saving the file as et1-4. Save the file onto your own disk or network drive. 

6. To submit your work: email your file to me at <[instructor's name]>