- Sheet Music & Educational Material for (Marching) Bands & (Marching) Percussion Ensembles

About Show & Marching Music

Show & Marching Music is the European specialist in the field of sheet music and educational material for (marching) bands and (marching) percussion ensembles. But we have a lot more to offer. More about these and our other Products & Services you can find our Products & Services Page.

New Demo CD

mbs_mps_2012_2013_small Recently we released our new publications for Marching Bands (Drumfanfare), Marching Percussion Ensembles (Malletband/Drumband). Here you can download all demo tracks for free. Our Concert Percussion Ensemble demo CD is free available for band directors, conductors and instructors if you fill up this form.

Music Software

Finale 2012 Full Academic Version

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Finale 2012 Full Academic Version

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Price per Unit (piece): €399,00

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The world’s most powerful music notation software – lets you express your creativity and love of music. Compose, arrange, notate, and print engraver-quality sheet music.

Complete new ScoreManager™

Thanks to the new ScoreManager™ your works looks perfect and sounds as you intended. Optimal control about the design and sound of your work. No trouble with assigning sounds, midi channels and transpositions of different instruments. The ScoreManager™ does the job.

New Garritan Sounds

For many years Finale has an extensive library with the best Garritan sounds. This library, with more than 400 sounds, has been further expanded. At your request, the following sounds are added:

•Soprano sax
•Celesta
•Mandolin
•Accordion
•Euphonium solo
•Recorder
•Pipe organ – Baroque Plenu

Communicate with the world

Finale 2012 now supports Unicode fonts, so all possible special characters from any language can include in the layout of your pieces. Creating PDF files is now fully integrated into Finale. No more trouble with PDF printer. Your Finale files will always playback properly, even if your colleague does not have the same sounds in his sound libraries, Finale will automatically choose the best alternative and always playback the piece correctly.

System Requirements

Finale 2012 for Windows®
•XP/Vista/Windows 7 (64-bit compatible).
•DVD-ROM drive.
•800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
•Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended).
•600MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2012.

Finale 2012 for Macintosh®
•G4 or higher recommended. OS X 10.5-10.7 (Mac-Intel or Power PC).
•DVD-ROM drive.
•800x600 minimum monitor resolution.
•Minimum 512MB RAM (1GB or more recommended).
•700 MB hard drive space required for software and user manual. An additional 2GB hard drive space is required for all VST/AU sounds included with Finale 2012.

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