Note that the plugin specially looks for repetitive material, so in order for it to work on a section of music set with 1-bar repeat Staff Style, you’ll need music underneath the 1-bar repeat Staff Style. To change the frequency of the numbering, simply clear the unwanted numbers in your score. If they do not, use “Reset to Category Font and Positioning”.Ĭlose the Expression Dialog, and all of the numbers should appear according to the new settings you created in the Category Designer. The numbers will all move to the new Category, and should inherit the new category settings. SHIFT-Click or CNTRL-Click (windows) or CMND-Click (mac) these numbers to select them, and while they are highlighted chose the “Numbered Repeat Bars” category in the “Move To” popup. The numbers created by the plugin will all be in the Miscellaneous Category.
Now, enter the Expressions list by double clicking on of the numbers above the bars. ** The actual amount of the horizontal offset required to center the text numbers is related to the current values in “Spacing Before Music” and “Spacing After Music” found in the Notes and Rest Section of Document Options.
Change the Text Font and Style to your preference. (for numbers above notated ostinato passages, use Above Staff Baseline or Entry). For Vertical Alignment, if appearing above single bar repeat signs, use Staff Reference Line +1 space. Set an additional horizontal offset of -.667 spaces (in an unmodified Finale Default File)**. For Horizontal Alignment, set to “Center Over / Under music”. For the Category’s positioning, set Justification to “center”. Rename this new category “Numbered Repeat Bars” or similar. Select the Technique Text category and duplicate it. Creating a new “Number Repeat Bars” Category allows us to control the look and location of numbered repeat bars:Īpply the “One-Bar Repeat” Staff Style on the region you want to change, then run the “Number Repeated Measures” plugin on the same region. An additional caveat with the plugin is that each time you run the plugin, you are adding new text to Finale’s Expression list.įinale’s Category Designer offers a solution for the limitations of the plugin. The font, size and attributes are preset, as is the text’s vertical position above the staff. Located in Plugins > Measures > Number Repeated Measures, Finale’s plugin for numbering offers a functional, but spartan solution. The plugin works regardless of whether you are using one-bar repeats or displaying the actual notation.īecause the plugin runs immediately without a dialog, there are no controls to change the font for the numbers, or to specify vertical location over the staff, or frequency of the numbers beforehand. In later versions of Finale, one-bar repeats are applied as a Staff Style. That is, the one bar repeat sign doesn’t replace the notation, but the iterations of the pattern are numbered above each measure, or every n bars:īoth Finale and Sibelius offer tools to help you number repeated measures for either of these situations. Sometimes, it’s desirable to number ostinato patterns which remain written out. In some cases, the numbers appear over every measure. So, it’s common practice to indicate the current number of the repeated measures by placing a number over every other measure, or every four measures: 
However, if there are more than a few of these in a row, it’s pretty easy for the performers to get disoriented without some sort of numerical reference. When the same bar of music is repeated over and over, it’s common to indicate the the repeated pattern in subsequent bars using a single bar repeat sign, notated with a single slash with two dots:
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