- Click the Lyrics tool
. The Lyrics menu
appears.
- Choose Lyrics > Lyrics window. The
Lyrics window appears. Type the lyrics in the usual way, up to the
melisma.
- Type the syllable to be sustained, followed
by the usual space or hyphen. For each subsequent note of the melisma,
type CTRL+SPACEBAR Finale considers each CTRL+SPACEBAR a syllable. Therefore, you need to separate it as you would
any syllable—with a space or a hyphen. Thus you type an CTRL+SPACEBAR followed by a regular space
(or a hyphen) for each subsequent note of the melisma. Complete the remaining
lyrics.
- Click OK. When you enter these lyrics
using the CTRL–Click
Assignment method (see Lyrics),
Finale distributes the invisible melismatic syllables you just created
to the corresponding notes of the melody.
Note: that you can
add slurs to melismas automatically using the Auto Slur Melismas plug-in.
