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Rebeam to Lyrics dialog box

How to get there

Click the Selection tool $image\Selection_Tool.gif$ , and select a region of measures.
Choose Utilities > Rebeam > Rebeam to Lyrics.

What it does

A convention used in opera or art song notation is beaming to lyrics. In this scheme, eighth, sixteenth, and shorter notes are never beamed together in the vocal line except when a syllable is sustained through more than one note (as a melisma). This dialog box lets you specify the lyrics you want rebeamed in this way.

Break Beams at Each Syllable in: All Lyrics • All Verses • All Choruses • All Sections. When the first radio button is selected the drop-down list allowing you to select All Lyrics, All Verses, All Choruses, and All Sections is used. With this menu you can instruct Finale to impose word-by-word beaming for a certain lyric type, such as Verses or Sections. (Verses, Choruses, and Sections are functionally identical; they just give you a convenient method of subdividing your lyrics.)
Verse • Chorus • Section ___ . When the second radio button is selected, this drop-down list and the associated text box are used. With this drop-down list you can select a specific set of lyrics whose notes you want to rebeam. Choose the lyric type from the drop-down list, then type the lyric number (Verse 1, for example) into the text box.
Also Break Beams at Each Beat in the Time Signature. Select this checkbox if you want the beams in melismatic passages (where a single syllable is sustained through more than one note) broken at the beginning of each beat, as they would be if they were beamed normally, according to the time signature. If you don’t select this option, Finale will beam together all notes in a melismatic passage, even if it results in (for example) all eight eighth notes in a 4/4 measure being beamed together.
OK • Cancel. Click OK to confirm the settings you’ve made; you return to the score, where Finale performs the rebeaming operation. Click Cancel if you decide not to do any rebeaming. You return to the score.