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	In our work over the past years, we have designed several fonts for music publishing, some with standard symbols, others more specialized. Having fully tested them in our own engraving studios, we have decided to make them available to others who work with Finale®. They have been designed as a family, so that while each font has a specific purpose, they can be used together. However, there is no need to install all of them. All of these fonts are available in Trutype and Postscript Type 1 for Macintosh and for PC. Each comes with a bitmap version in 24 pt or 36 pt (as appropriate): if installed, this font improves the quality of the on-screen actual size presentation of the characters. There is a table of all the keyboard equivalents and short explanatory notes. Virtuoso  40 A generic character font, designed to replace Maestro and Petrucci (the standard Finale® fonts). The characters have been designed with slightly more generous hairlines to give the best possible results on laser printers. Here are some of the additional characters it offers (not available in Maestro):  Charleston  40 A font offering an improved range of noteheads for percussion scoring, or other uses; it also offers symbols for indicating micro-intervals (quarter- and even eighth-tones). This means it can replace Tamburo (which comes as part of the Finale® package).  Grupetto  30 A font offering all the baroque ornaments (trills, mordents, gruppettos), as well as italic numbering for triplets, and fingering numbers.  Staccato  30 A font offering a greater range of articulations than the standard Finale® fonts (Petrucci or Maestro), tremolos and inverse tremolos (from simple through quadruple), glissandos, pedal indications for organ, as well as a wider range of pause symbols.  Vivace  25 A font for presenting all tempo markings and rhythmic changes. It also offers a range of symbols for the harp (chords and pedals).  Espressivo  40 A genuinely musical italic font, covering all the possible nuances and other useful markings, as well as a complete italic alphabet.  Koechlin  30 A three-level font for numbering harmony texts. This font offers all the usual numbers (with and without bars), brackets, parentheses and Roman numerals for chords. The font is named in honor of the French composer Charles Koechlin (1867-1950), who wrote a famous treatise on harmony and a very lengthy treatise on orchestration.  Fingering  25 A font for presenting all the numberings and finger-positions for guitar, violin or piano scores.  Ars Nova  30 A font (whose title is to be taken in the literal sense and not as a reference to the early days of polyphony) with a wide range of symbols for presenting contemporary music (arrows of all sorts, ondulating lines, etc.).  Flamenco  25 A font for constructing four or five square diagrams (tablatures) for guitar. This can replace the standard Seville font which comes with Finale®, and offers greater user-choice and flexibility in constructing tablature.  Oratorio  25 A font with capital letters within rectangular, hexagonal, round or oval borders. Useful for highlighting divisions and subdivisions within scores.  Timpani  30 A font offering the main pictograms for percussion instruments, as agreed at the international conference on musical notation at Gand (Belgium) in October 1974; includes various other symbols useful for concrete music.
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