At 04:49 PM 9/28/06 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >I may have to enter my very first quarter tone piece soon. What is the >best way to deal with quartertone accidentals? >I have never done this before, so I will need some very basic advice...
Set up your quartertones with the key signature tool to make it easy with Speedy. (I only use Speedy Entry, so don't know how accidentals are entered otherwise.) In speedy, I set up: + 1/4 sharp ++ sharp +++ 3/4 sharp - 1/4 flat -- flat --- 3/4 flat. The symbols I use are slightly different from Finale's. If your symbols haven't been specified by the composer, you're welcome to my modified Maestro: Sharp with attached down arrow, 1/4 sharp Sharp with attached up arrow, 3/4 sharp Flat with attached up arrow, 1/4 flat Flat with attached down arrow, 3/4 flat My font modifications can be seen on page 4 in the sixth movement of this suite: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/cat-chamber-3.html#eventide Before creating this font, I used Finale symbols, as shown here: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/cat-solo.html#thiele Playback is a mess, so I've given up asking Finale to do that. Hope that's what you meant by basic advice... Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ My blog: http://maltedmedia.com/bathory/waam-blog.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
