[Finale] annotation files

2008-10-05 Thread Stan Lord
MacFin 2008 r2 OS10.5 I opened a piece I did about 3 weeks ago and got the message "Font annotation files cannot be found". Parts have been generated and printed. Now the accents and slurs are way out of position. I can't understand what's happened. Any ideas?? Also I've added an extra stave

Re: [Finale] the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians

2008-10-05 Thread John Howell
At 5:42 PM -1000 10/5/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >From what I could tell from what I've read about this: (1) The sample size was not terribly large (20 in the non-musician group, 20 in the musician group). Understandable, as they have to pay their subjects, but still makes it only a prelimi

Re: [Finale] the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians

2008-10-05 Thread kaub001
>From what I could tell from what I've read about this: (1) The sample size was not terribly large (20 in the non-musician group, 20 in the musician group). Understandable, as they have to pay their subjects, but still makes it only a preliminary type of study. (2) It was a correlation study, no

Re: [Finale] the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians

2008-10-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Oct 2008 at 20:45, timothy price wrote: [quoting an uncited source:] > Folley said. "We studied musicians because creative thinking is part > of their daily experience I do not understand this definition of the word "creative thinking." What is creative about the mechanics of playing a m

Re: [Finale] the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians

2008-10-05 Thread John Howell
At 8:45 PM -0400 10/5/08, timothy price wrote: FYI Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people Vanderbilt University Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:11 UTC Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicia

Re: [Finale] the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians

2008-10-05 Thread shirling & neueweise
One possible explanation the researchers offer for the musicians' elevated use of both brain hemispheres is that many musicians must be able to use both hands independently to play their instruments. this is absolutely brilliant. i bet they could get the same results from guys who every mor

Re: [Finale] Page Layout Problem

2008-10-05 Thread John Blane
Chris - When Update layout doesn't solve this, force a page break on system #26 and then remove the page break. The double system will be gone. On Oct 5, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Chris Nappi wrote: Using the page layout tool, when I squeeze lines onto one page in order to facilitate page turns,

[Finale] the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians

2008-10-05 Thread timothy price
FYI Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people Vanderbilt University Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:11 UTC Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the re

Re: [Finale] Page Layout Problem

2008-10-05 Thread Christopher Smith
Get onto page 3, then update layout. It only applies from the page you on until the end of the document, so updating layout when you are on page 4 won't help. C. On Oct 5, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Chris Nappi wrote: Hello all, I've been on and off this list for many years, but off for a quite

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-05 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Johannes Gebauer wrote: Is there a way to join homophonic layers into one? The way I've done it in the past: 1) add a scratch staff for each layer to be combined (two layers, two scratch staves), plus an extra. 2) Set to "display active layer only". 3) Choose each layer in succession 4) Mo

[Finale] Page Layout Problem

2008-10-05 Thread Chris Nappi
Hello all, I've been on and off this list for many years, but off for a quite a while and can't seem to get into the archive, so forgive me if this has already been dealt with. Finale Mac 2008, OS 10.5.5 I'm squeezing out parts for a piece and am finding I'm having an age old problem

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-05 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 05.10.2008 dhbailey wrote: I think you need to use the "Implode Music" command. As far as I can tell this takes several staves and combines them, but it won't work on one staff in several layers. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-05 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: Is there a way to join homophonic layers into one? I think you need to use the "Implode Music" command. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/final

Re: [Finale] Piano harmonics

2008-10-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
I didn't get your previous message. But yes, I am of course talking about touching a node on the piano string with one hand while pressing the corresponding key with the other hand and holding down the sustain pedal. This is what "piano harmonics" generally means. I don't know if there's a

[Finale] joining layers

2008-10-05 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Is there a way to join homophonic layers into one? -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Piano harmonics

2008-10-05 Thread John Howell
At 7:06 PM -0400 10/4/08, Darcy James Argue wrote: Not sure if the second partial is reachable on the strings I have in mind. (Hard to tell since I don't have a 9' grand kicking around to try it on.) The player will, I think need to touch the fourth partial instead. (Light bulb!!!) ARe we ta