I have consulted with several professional arrangers and copyists about this.
You don't have tied notes between pitches that aren't HEARD the same, for example G to B natural. A tie mark in that setting is a SLUR. You can, however, have a tied note between G sharp and A flat, provided there is a key signature change. In such a case, the tie mark would have to go UNDER the key signature, connecting the two notes. I bring this up because when you CHANGE a pitch of a tied note currently, Finale does NOT change the other notes it is tied to. So if you want to keep the note as tied, you have to adjust all the others on the staff. Otherwise the tie mark is "hanging in space." The programmers should be more concerned about getting it right, than what is convenient. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
