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Manuscript papers seem expensive. I usually print a sheet of staves from Finale onto copy paper. It's cheap and gets the job done for me but I'm not a music major so take this only for what it's worth. I would have done the same for lined paper but lined paper is dirt cheap during back-to-school sales so I just stock up every year.

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Just as the title asks, I would like to know how to hide staves in Finale so that, for example during a piano solo I don't have a million bars of rests taking up space on the score. Thanks in advance

emulate means to imitate, in this case it means that the sounds on the synthesizer were created on a computer to sound as similarly to the real instrument as possible Woodblocks are blocks of wood (not so surprising) that you hit with a stick. They usually have a hollow inside with a hole on one side to naturally amplify the sound (similar to the sound chamber in a string instrument).

Finale has an orchestra preset that sets up everything in that order for you. It shows up in the score setup page. You just have to make sure that after you're done adding a taking out instruments that the score order is still set to orchestral and not custom, or concert band or something.

I'd just like to point out that trumpet in C is not absolutely rigidly required. Stravinsky wrote the ballerina dance in Petrushka in Bb (not sure about he rest of it cause I haven't seen it yet). So was the 1st movement of Tan Dun's piece for the Youtube Symphony Orchestra (don't know if you've heard of it), and the Arrutunian Trumpet Concerto. Carmen was written for A trumpet and Tchaikovsky (and many other romantic compsers) wrote for A trumpet several times too. And all these examples are from within the last 200 years. That said I think C would be better because the American standard is C trumpet (European orchestras may use a combination of Bb, C, and occasionally low F trumpets within the section but that is up to the players themselves to decide since professional trumpeters are expected to be more than decent at sight transposition) Now about the music, you notated mourning in the beginning but, to me, it didn't sound very mournful. I can't really explain what it did sound like, but I feel that the dotted rhythms and the placement of the sixteenth notes make the piece sound a little too upbeat but yet weird. I think on a more basic level your dissonant chords are not jiving. IMO the way you wrote it makes the music sound loose and unfocused. And that's about all my limited experience allows me to communicate in words. Good luck on your first symphony though. I've still yet to successfully write for larger than a brass quintet.