When making an arrangement of a tune or an original composition I use several tools to ease the job. At first I start by finding the right chords of the song and generating a rhythm track with Band In A Box.
For example, this looks like (Samba Cantina):

This is exported to MIDI-file and read into the sequencer Cakewalk. Most of the job is done with this program. The harmonisations and all the parts are sequenced in to the program. At the end all the parts are ready:

The alto part is displayed below (not transposed):

Next the Cakewalk file (Samba Cantina.wrk) is exported to MIDI and imported into the musical desktop publishing program Finale. With this fabulous program it is possible to produce professional looking scores. The opening screen is shown below:

Also a new version is available:

When the MIDI file is imported and the extra musical symbols are inserted it looks like:

At last the parts are extracted:

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