Coda

Noteman says: To automatically create a separate coda system, use the Create Coda System plug-in.

A coda is a musical tag, or extension, which usually follows the main body of the piece. The musician’s cue to jump to the coda is often marked by a marking like “To coda ,” and the coda itself often displays a notation like “ Coda.” You can place such markings into your score very easily if you’re preparing your score for printout only (without playback). With some additional steps, you can setup your coda markings to control the way Finale plays back your score. When Finale encounters the “To Coda” marking, it will direct the playback of your score to the measure displaying the sign.

To place the sign, and a “to coda” sign in the score

  1. Choose the Repeat tool . Double-click the measure in which you want the coda sign to appear. The Repeat Selection dialog box appears.
  2. Double-click the sign. The Text Repeat Assignment dialog box appears. Take note of the unique Text Repeat ID in the top left of the dialog box. If you are not placing a “working” coda sign in you piece, click OK and skip to step 5.

    If you don’t see the marking, click Create; the Repeat Designer dialog box appears. While pressing ALT, type 0222. Click Set Font, and set the font to Maestro 24 regular. Press ENTER twice.

  3. Click Never Jump (Mark). You’ve just defined this text repeat to be a mark to which other text repeats (“To Coda,” in this example) can refer during playback.
  4. Click OK (or press ENTER). The coda sign appears in all staves. Adjust the coda sign as needed.

Once you’ve created a coda symbol and designed it for playback, you must now place the “To Coda” marking somewhere in the main body of music and tell it to direct the playback of your score to the measure containing the coda sign.

  1. Choose the Repeat tool . Double-click the last measure to be played before jumping to the coda. The Repeat Selection dialog box appears.
  2. Double-click the “To Coda #” text repeat. The Text Repeat Assignment dialog box appears.

    If you don't see the “To coda” marking, click Create and type “To Coda #.” Set the font and style by clicking the Set Font button. Now select Text Repeat ID in Target from the Replace ‘#’ With drop-down menu. This replaces the # sign with the repeat mark itself—in this case, the sign (“To Coda ”). Click OK (or press ENTER).

  3. Click Jump on Pass(es) and enter a number in the text box to designate on which repetition of this music the playback should jump to the coda sign. If this is a standard D.S. al Coda, in which the music up to the “To Coda” mark is played a total of two times, type 2.
  4. Under Target, click the drop-down menu and choose Text Repeat ID. Enter the Text Repeat ID number of the coda sign you placed in step 2.

    Because you’ve specified that the playback should jump to the coda sign itself (instead of to a measure number), you can change your mind about the location of the coda sign in the score. You can delete it and put it in another measure—even a measure that precedes the “To Coda ” marking—and Finale still directs the playback to it correctly.

  5. Click OK (or press ENTER). You return to the document, where the “To Coda ” mark appears in every staff.

See also:

D.C.

D.S.

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