Using the Mirror tool, you can create a
measure that contains intelligent copies of individual notes from several
normal measures. The resulting patchwork measure is called a composite
mirror.
Note: Composite mirroring
combines notes from different measures into a single measure. If you want
to create a mirror consisting of selected notes from a single measure,
copy the entire measure (see To
create a mirror, above), and see To rebeam or edit an existing mirror,
below, for instructions on choosing selective elements of it.
-
Choose Window >
Advanced Tools. Click the Mirror tool
; then double-click an empty
measure (the target measure). The Tilting Mirror dialog box appears,
so called because it can be made to “reflect” the contents of any other
measure in the score. At the moment, the Tilting Mirror dialog box is
blank.
- Click the up, down, left, or right arrow buttons
to maneuver your “window” on the score to the measure whose notes you
want to mirror. Click the UP ARROW to move up a staff, the right
arrow to move to the next measure, and so on. As you proceed, you’ll see
the contents of each measure you view, adjusted for the target measure’s
clef. (If you move your “view” to another mirrored measure, it appears
blank in this window.)
- When you’re viewing a measure whose notes you
want to mirror, drag the cut bar handles inward to enclose the desired
notes. The “cut bars” are the dotted lines at each end of the window,
whose handles you drag to move them.
- Click Next. Finale keeps track of the
notes you just selected and restores the cut bars to the ends of the window,
ready for another set of notes.
- Repeat the last three steps, as necessary.
Use the arrows to locate the measure, the cut bars to identify the notes,
and click Next to add the selected notes to the target measure. To remove
one of the elements of your composite mirror, click the Prev (or Next)
button until the notes appear in the window; then click Delete. If you
want to insert a new selection between two existing ones, click the Prev
or Next buttons until you’re viewing the selection after the insertion
point; then click Insert. Use the directional arrows and cut bars as usual.
- Click OK. The Mirror Attributes dialog
box appears. Specify a transposition, and specify musical items to ignore
(Don’t Draw), as needed.
- Click OK (or press ENTER).
The composite measure appears in the score with a mirror icon. If any
of your measure-fragment selections were blank, any selections after the
blank selection are ignored.
