SmartMusic & Finale: A Program of Professional Development in Music Technology

Usdan presented "SmartMusic & Finale: A Program of Professional Development in Music Technology." The 5-day workshop took place from Monday, July 14 - Friday, July 18, 2014. Usdan’s workshop was taught by certified Finale clinician David Dolgon, and it covered the notation and composition program that is the industry standard in music notation software, enabling composers, arrangers, musicians, teachers, students and publishers to create, edit, audition, print and publish musical scores.

For more information about future workshops, please call us at 212-772-6060.

Workshop topics for SmartMusic included:

How to teach students to practice effectively and efficiently

How to prepare your ensemble and soloists for NYSSMA evaluation

Exploring Content

Creating SmartMusic gradebook

Enrolling students

Addressing Common Core

Sending and receiving assignments

Functions

Creating Listening lessons

Workshop topics for Finale included:

Creating a document for export into SmartMusic

Creating Student Learning Objectives and testing in SmartMusic

Exploring Content

Creating Mp3 of your Finale documents

Creating Kodaly stick notation documents

Introduction to Finale Worksheets

Scanning music into a Finale notation file