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The following is a list of some of the fonts which are available to the Finale user in addition to
Maestro, Maestro Percussion and Maestro Wide (which are included with the purchase of Finale)
Finale’s default music font was developed for MakeMusic by Blake Hodgetts (see also Toccata and Fughetta). This is an elegant font, yet more robust than Petrucci, more accurately representing the look of engraved music. Maestro Wide is identical with the exception of wider noteheads.
Petrucci (included with the purchase of Finale)
This music font is called Petrucci, named for Ottaviano Petrucci, the sixteenth-century Italian who first used movable type for printing polyphonic music. It was the default music font for Finale products for years, but is now shipped for compatibility.
Tamburo (included with the purchase of Finale)
Tamburo, an Italian term for drum, is a font primarily comprised of noteheads. It contains a variety of symbols particularly useful for percussion notation, including instrument noteheads and several articulation marks. Tamburo also contains a full set of symbols for use in hymnal shape note music, where each note of the scale is displayed with a unique notehead. Moreover, Tamburo expands your choice of accidentals for quarter-tone music.
Finale Engraver Font (included with the purchase of Finale)
The Finale Engraver’s font set was developed by Bruce Nelson to meet the Music Publisher Association's music font design specifications. It includes a larger notehead with a different notehead angle. It also includes “Let Ring” noteheads, “Double-stopped unison” noteheads, “Trill to” noteheads, “Tone-cluster” noteheads, variations on dynamics and articulations, tempo markings, and harp pedaling symbols. (See Engraver Font)
The Jazz Font (included with the purchase of Finale, Finale Allegro, or Finale PrintMusic)
The Jazz Font was the premiere hand written music font prior to Finale 2010, and includes handwritten text, percussion and guitar symbol fonts as well.
The Broadway Copyist Font (included with the purchase of Finale or Finale PrintMusic)
The Broadway Copyist Font, Finale's premiere hand written music font, comes with handwritten text, percussion and guitar symbol fonts as well.
November by Robert Piéchaud ($70)
November is a rich set made up of more than 330 symbols, from basic shapes such as note heads, clefs and rests, up to rarer characters like microtonal accidentals, plain-song clefs or baroque ornaments. Based on the fractal concept, in which details are as important as the whole, even for very small symbols such as music characters, November has been crafted with total attention to details and a new coherence. November is inspired by the spirit of traditional music engraving art… but with a revolutionary graphic idea!
http://www.klemm-music.de/notation/november/content_en/overview.php
Klemm Music Technology
Waldstieg 2
D-37133 Friedland, Germany
Neuma and Neuma Symbol (part of the Medieval plug-in package) by Robert Piéchaud ($200)
The Medieval plug-in offers you the possibility to produce professional transcriptions of early music easily, from Gregorian square notation to Italian mixed notation, with a beautiful rendering. Medieval gives you a wide choice of tools such as automatic recognition of neumes (more than 80!) up to 7 notes, liquescences, automatic placing of the “direct”, stemmed note groupings, and numerous special symbols: quilisma, rests, plicas, large ligatures, black-void notation, etc.
With Medieval you will get:
http://www.klemm-music.de/notation/medieval/content_en/overview.php
Klemm Music Technology
Waldstieg 2
D-37133 Friedland, Germany
Toccata and Fughetta fonts by Blake Hodgetts (Shareware: $30 for both)
Hundreds of additional musical symbols; available for Mac and Windows. The full package includes TrueType and PostScript fonts, custom Finale libraries, character charts, stem connection settings and full documentation. Additional information and downloadable TrueType versions available at the following locations:
http://www.efn.org/~bch/AboutFonts.html
Contact the author at bhodgetts@symantec.com, or write:
Blake Hodgetts
4495 Thunderbird Dr.
Eugene, OR 97404
Sonata ($29.95 + your choice of $6 or $9 shipping)
The first music font, and a favorite among computer copyists. This font has fewer symbols than most other fonts but remains popular because of its “classic” look. Available for Mac and Windows.
http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFontPackage&code=1397
Adobe Systems Incorporated
PO Box 6458
Salinas, CA 93912-6458
General Phone: (800) 833-6687
Image Club (to order fonts on floppy) (800) 661-9410
Metronome & MetTimes ($24.95 + $3 shipping)
A music font that works like a text font. A collection of number sets, text characters and built-in music characters lets you mix text with markings and music symbols without changing fonts. MetTimes includes the largest collection of dynamics in any music font. Available for Mac and Windows. DVMarticulations is included free of charge.
http://dvmpublications.com/metronome_information.htm
DVM Publications
104 Woodside Rd.
Suite A-202
Haverford, PA 19041
Phone/Fax: (610) 896-0996
E-Mail: SPLsm@aol.com
Golden Age ($65 includes US postage)
“GoldenAge” is a full-featured package of four typefaces inspired by the clear, highly legible look of professionally hand-copied sheet music. Available for either Windows or Mac, the package includes PostScript and TrueType versions, full documentation on their use, sample text/chord suffix libraries and a Default file template. GoldenAge has a highly readable, informal design appropriate for use in big band charts, jingles, record dates, or anywhere a commercially hand-copied look is desirable. Session players prefer the look of GoldenAge because of its familiarity and readability. The set of 4 fonts (2 music/2 text) is available for $65.00 US (postpaid) from:
Donald Rice
Anixter Rice Music Service
Suite 1410-D
630 9th Avenue
New York, NY 10036 U.S.A.
email: MelRoc@aol.com
Susato ($149 US only – plus shipping; others please call or Fax)
The Susato PostScript Type 1 and TrueType character sets take the aesthetics of traditional note engraving into account and thus greatly enhance the printouts made with Finale. The standard character set is complemented by an accordion register font, a guitar tablature font, and a notehead font. Available for Mac and Windows.
http://www.notengrafik-eickhoff.de/MusicFontLab-/-Susato (German)
Werner Eickhoff-Maschitzki
MusicFontLab
Schauinslandstrasse 99
D-79100 Freiburg im Brsg.
Germany
Phone +49-761-2909892
Fax +49-761-29099062
email: we-notengrafik-mfl@t-online.de
The Figured Bass font greatly simplifies the creation and entry of figured bass symbols. Its features include:
1. Direct entry (e.g. as lyrics in Finale) of numbers, special symbols and accidentals without changing font or size within the same verse.
2. Direct entry of the characters mentioned beside or below each other within only one “syllable”.
3. Enter the numbers 2,4,5,6,7,9 with accidental or as struck-through characters. The numbers “5+” and “7+” are even available in two different versions.
4. Easy-to-remember keyboard layout. A similar font exists in a version for German users, called FinalGeneralBass. The very important difference is only the keyboard-layout for German system.
5. Great flexibility because of many available characters and several different entry methods.
The full version costs $50 (or DM 45.-) and can be ordered from
http://home.arcor.de/ansgarkrause/finalfonts.htm
Ansgar Krause
Erftweg 29
47807 Krefeld
Germany
Phone/Fax +49-2151-308962
Email ansgarkrause@arcor.de
Be sure to include the following information: Version for Windows or Mac, US-Version or German, and via e-mail or disk ($5 extra).
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