Thank you, Michael, for answering my question. As for everyone else, I have four well-established composers looking over my every move compositionally. Don't get me wrong, they are not overbearing in the least and are all quite sensitive to my personal choice as a composer. But, each of them strongly agrees that this is a change that would serve the music well.
The piece is being performed by Mladi, a professional ensemble in Los Angeles (http://www.mladichamberorchestra.org/), who are more than capable of subdividing. The fault is not theirs. If there is any fault to be found, it is mine only. All of the issues that have been raised, while valid, are not my concern here. I have hand-written parts for sections that are of particular importance and the changes are accomplishing exactly what I am looking for. Now I know how to try and accomplish this within Finale. Thank you again for the assistance. Best regards, Brennon C. Bortz Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student - Music Composition University of California, Riverside ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:46:16 +0100 >From: Michael Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Finale] Changing time signature, tempo and note durations >To: [email protected] > >It's easy enough to change all the note values with Mass Edit > >Change > Note Durations. The annoying part would be the time >signatures, if they change frequently: I don't know of a way to >double the beat duration of all time signatures. > >So if you want to expand all time signatures proportionally (6/8 >becomes 6/4, 2/4 becomes 2/2, whatever) then probably the best way is >to first double all the note durations, making sure that "Rebar >Music" is unchecked. Then go through the piece with the time >signature tool, always selecting the passage until the next time >signature change, then changing the time signature of that passage. >If there's a repeated pattern of changing time signatures, you could >do this a bit faster by selecting the pattern with Mass edit, >choosing only "Time Signatures" in Items to Copy, and pasting it the >required number of times. > >As to whether you should or shouldn't do this, it's a personal >choice. The look of a piece can have an effect on the performer: I >don't think Beethoven's slow movements would be the same if you wrote >them out with doubled note values. I remember playing his Trio opus >70, N° 1 in D. (the "Ghost" trio). The slow movement is special: >it's 2/4, marked "Largo assai ed espressivo", and it's really, really >slow. All those 64th notes, and even sextuplets of 64th notes, make >it arguably hard to read, but I think the sort of "shivery" look they >give to the music on the page may well affect the way people perform >it. The actual tempo of this movement differs much from performance >to performance (Beethoven didn't supply a metronome marking), but >there's no doubt that something like quarter=38 would be too fast for >this piece. > >Michael Cook > >On 15 Mar 2007, at 22:22, Brennon Bortz wrote: > >> I have a task that I fear is going to be quite a project. I have a >> piece (well, a section of one) that is in much too slow a tempo to >> be "felt" by a performer. Right now, it is at quarter note=38. In >> order to make this more playable, I need to change the tempo to >> quarter=76, double all note values, change time signatures (they >> change rather consistently), etc. Does anyone have any shortcuts >> for this? > > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
