Finale: Bach Prelude in F minor

J.S. Bach prelude in F minor in Finale 2009

This is the second exercise for entering music in Finale using Simple Note Entry. The previous exercise is Mary Had a Little Lamb and the next exercise is a chorale.

This exercise demonstrates how to:

1. Add a staff.
2. Add a brace to the system and connect barlines between staves in the system.
3. Create a pickup measure.
4. Enter chords.
5. Alter beats in measure without displaying time signature.
6. Hide a barline.
7. Manually select linebreak points between measures.

Follow these instructions to enter the music/lyrics for the first few bars of J.S. Bach's prelude in F minor, BWV 881 from Book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier. The final result should look similar to the image displayed to the right.