[Finale] Haydn canon

2004-01-01 Thread Charles Small
Hello, No Finale content here, but I'm hoping someone in the vast pool of musical wisdom on this list can help me with an inquiry-- Toward the end of his life, Haydn printed up a visiting card which has a 4-bar tune, with text Hin ist alle meine Kraft, alt und schach bin ich (All my strength is

[Finale] tuplets

2003-11-21 Thread Charles Small
Hello, I have hundreds of measures full of 16th notes, in 18/16 time sig. I'd like to convert all this to 16th-note triplets, in 3/4. No problem changing time sig and converting to tuplets one tuplet at a time, BUT: is there a way to select a region and tupletize the whole region in one go?

Re: [Finale] Re: Constitutional Monarchies [ot, Was: The Sword again]

2002-07-17 Thread Charles Small
John Bell wrote: OK, I must have missed the news on this one. But Queen Elizabeth II is *still* listed as chief of state. I got a minor surprise to read that Canada's chief of state is still HRH (represented by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson). Even more surprising might be to find

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI - maybe too long

2002-07-17 Thread Charles Small
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Sure, live concerts are great for the tension of the imminent mistake (composer Daron Hagen believes it's only the possibility of calamity that keeps people going to opera and NASCAR races), the idiosyncratic interpretations and bizarre behavior,

Re: [Finale] Beam Me Up, Please

2002-07-16 Thread Charles Small
Bob Clifton wrote: The beams for a group of four sixteenth notes in Layer Two are partially obscuring the notehead for an eighth note in Layer One. I thought, well I'll just nudge the beam(s) up or down a little and that will fix it (though I'd never encountered the problem before). I got

Re: [Finale] 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-01 Thread Charles Small
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Pass the goddamn butter is irregular the way I say it (quarter-eighth triplet, two quarters, two eighths) unless you add a rest at the end and flatten it all out. Then I can hear the 1-2-4-6 syllable part as the 4 side, but did you mean 1-3-6 for the three side?

Re: [Finale] prick-song

2002-06-30 Thread Charles Small
Andrew Stiller wrote: And then of course there were the inevitable bawdy puns; see for example http://homepage.macomb.com/~chiara/A_Wanton_Trick.htm. Glorious! Thanks, Andrew. What a fabulous resource this erudite list is!! Ch.S. ___ Finale

[Finale] Re: Details of copyright.

2002-06-30 Thread Charles Small
Ah, thanks, Michael, for letting me know. I had intended to send it to the list. But I doubt it's important enough to warrant doing so now! ;-) Your post reminded me of it, being the reductio ad absurdem of the line you were following: if stealing a phrase of 4 notes (three Gs followed by the

Re: [Finale] 3 against 4 TAN

2002-06-30 Thread Charles Small
David W. Fenton wrote: On 1 Jul 2002, at 1:57, John Bell wrote: My son is learning a piano piece in which he is experiencing some difficulty with a passage that has 3 in RH against 4 in LH. His teacher has suggested what atrocious weather as an aid (we live in London). Does

Re: [Finale] 127 sharps or flats?

2002-06-24 Thread Charles Small
Dennis W. Manasco wrote: Confusion arises because most programming languages begin indexing arrays with the zeroth item. Thus the final item in an entirely filled array whose index is defined as short or char would be the 256th item, but its actual index value would be 255 ( in

Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-22 Thread Charles Small
Linda Worsley wrote: [snip] So here's my question: (at last) Faced with this daunting task, what would you do? I'd shoot myself!! All I can say is, best of luck (I think you're going to need bushels of it, and black coffee by the tanker-load). Let us all know how it goes!

[Finale] Notation query in Bach

2002-06-06 Thread Charles Small
Hello Collective Wisdom, In the Peters Urtext edition of the Bach trio sonatas, there is a lozenge mark (an open rhomboid) above some of the notes in the violin part. Does anyone know what this means? Expiring minds want to know! TIA, Ch.S.

[Finale] Terminology question

2002-06-05 Thread Charles Small
A question of terminology for the Collective Wisdom: Whaddya call the accent mark that looks like a little v (sometimes inverted)? One place to see it is Bartok, Str.Quartet #5, 3rd mvt (Scherzo), cello parrt, meas.30-41, but of course it occurs all over the place. My question is not how

Re: [Finale] Re: Root movement

2002-06-04 Thread Charles Small
Philip Aker wrote: Best wishes from the Big 4 Ranch, Philip Aker Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Cage? ;-) Ch.S. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Re: Where are you? Partying! [no Finale content]

2002-05-31 Thread Charles Small
Crystal Premo wrote: Memorial to what? For all our military men killed in wartime. This year it has been expnded to include those who went down with the WTC. It is a day for a backyard cookout with your family. Translation for non-US types: cookout = BBQ Some discuss the

Re: [Finale] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (was Plea for help) TAN

2002-05-22 Thread Charles Small
John Bell wrote: Has anyone else written a song about their phone number? Not exactly, but almost. My mom was a pianist, and one birthday or Mothers' Day I got her a working novelty phone in the shape of a little piano. It had a range of a 10th, and the notes chimed as you hit A for 1, B

[Finale] Halving

2002-05-02 Thread Charles Small
Hello, I'm reworking a piece done long ago in 4/4, am thinking it would be much more natural in 2/4 with all note values halved (2 quarters and 4 8ths in 4/4 would become 2 8ths and 4 16ths in 2/4, etc). Is there an easy way to halve all the note values? TIA, Ch.S. (PS- Mac, 2000c)

[Finale] Halving

2002-05-02 Thread Charles Small
Jari wrote: Is there an easy way to halve all the note values? Mark the whole document with the MassMover Tool and select MassMover/Change/Note Durations... (Change to 50%) Thanks (again!) Jari. Why did I never notice that before? Works like a charm-- except 50% of a default whole

[Finale] OT: Reinstalling Netscape

2002-04-22 Thread Charles Small
Hello, Nothing to do with Finale, just an appeal for help... The e-mail part of my Netscape 4.7 is acting a bit strangely (in one profile only), and I'm tempted to reinstall it to see if that clears the cobwebs from its opaque but apparently confused little brain. Questions: If I reinstall

Re: [Finale] New Staff System woes

2002-04-17 Thread Charles Small
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17.04.2002 15:44 Uhr, Charles Small wrote Hi and thanks for help (again!) Jari. Alas, I can't get it to work and am back, begging for fine-tuned help! In Update Layout Options, I have 4 Reflow Measures choices: Do Not Reflow; Reflow only within system