MakeMusic! Introduces Finale 2003 for Mac - Music Marketplace - Brief Article

American Music Teacher, Oct-Nov, 2002

MakeMusic!, 6210 Bury Dr., Eden Prairie, MN 55346-1718; (952) 937-9611; Fax: (952) 937-9760; finalesales@makemusic.com; www.makemusic.com. Contact company for price.

MakeMusic!, formerly Coda Music Technologies, is now offering Finale 2003 for Macintosh computers.

The upgraded version of the company's music notation software offers new features for educators, engravers and publishers, with more than 1,700 new graphic elements, and complements the success of Finale 2003 for Windows.

New features of Finale 2003 for Macintosh include an advanced music scanning technology that provides a new level of optical music character recognition, new TAB notation features that allow users to enter music in a traditional staff and see it displayed automatically in a TAB staff or vice versa, a Rhythm Section Generator that allows arrangers to automatically compose piano, bass and drum parts for any melody with chords, and a Rhyming Dictionary that enables songwriters to quickly search all possible English rhymes for any lyric.

MakeMusic! Inc. is a global music technology company dedicated to improving the way musicians, music educators, students and hobbyists practice, create and acquire music. For more information contact MakeMusic!.