Diminution

Diminution refers to the process of halving a motif’s rhythmic values, so that each quarter note becomes an eighth note, and so on. In effect, the following process re-notates any passage so that it halves every note’s value.

To halve the rhythmic values in a passage

1. Click the Selection Tool   and select the region of music you want to affect. See Selecting music for some region-selecting shortcuts.
2. From the Utilities menu, choose Change, then Note Durations. The Change Note Durations dialog box appears.
3. Choose 50% from the Change All Note Durations by drop-down list menu. If you want Finale to re-bar the selected measures so that there are twice as many notes per measure, make sure Rebar Measures is selected. See Change Note Durations dialog box for details on these options.
4. Click OK (or press enter). You can even double the values of the notes only in one layer (if Show Only Current Layer is selected in the Edit menu. Finally, note that this command does not affect empty measures. (A measure in which you’ve entered a “real” whole rest doesn’t count as empty in this context.) That is, it will double the values of all notes and rests you’ve entered, but it won’t create a second completely empty measure.

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