Most often found in early motets, this is the practice of having different time signatures performed at the same time.

This is a fairly straight forward process within Finale and I have created a video that walks through the steps to create isorhythmic notation.

N.B. - This is the easiest way to setup this style of notation, but it will not playback.

I will save the playback version for another post.

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Not many people are aware of this, but there is a Human Playback Dictionary located in the User Manual under the Help Menu.  To find it open your user manual and then click on search in the lower left-hand corner.  Type in Human Playback in the upper left-hand corner of the search window and then click on the Human Playback Dictionary link.  This library contains a list of all of the words that Human Playback will recognize, besides the standard performance markings, and apply the appropriate effect during playback of your score.  It also contains a list of extraneous characters such as grupetti, tremolos, mordents, trills, and punctual accents such as sFFz and rFz.  It contains characters from the Maestro, Engraver, Petrucci, November and Jazz fonts.

When entering one of the non-standard words or phrases recognized by Human Playback make sure that you are entering them as either text expressions or as part of a shape expression.   If you are using a current document with current libraries, then any of those words should create the desired effect within your Finale score.

If you have ever had the hankering to create an expression that would sit on top of the notation - and come on, who hasn’t - just follow these steps to opaqu-e goodness!

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