Re: [Finale] OT Mac Trackballs

[Bruce K H Kau]

I am a trackball fan; I would strongly recommend an optical over a 
mechanical trackball, as the mechanical ones get dirty really fast. 
Also, the rolling mechanism on mechanical trackballs tend to stick; 
optical trackballs never have ths problem. I use a mechanical at work, 
and an optical at home. The mechanical one (Kensington) cost more and 
has more buttons, but I am much happier with the optical (Logitech). I 
do not have a scroll wheel on my optical, but I think there is an 
emulation mode that I've never turned on.

Michael Cook wrote:
An off-topic question for Mac users: for my new iMac I want to replace 
the mouse with a trackball. I use a Kensington Orbit Trackball with the 
old Mac: I'm very happy with it, the only drawback being that it's hard 
to clean the little rollers. Does anybody have experiences (good or bad) 
with optical trackballs? It would be nice to have a scroll-wheel as 
well: any ideas?

Best wishes,
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Re: [Finale] OS X 10.4 "Tiger"

[Paul Hayden]

I wrote:
1. Finale 2005 will probably not work with "Tiger", correct?
Don Hart wrote:
I'm not sure exactly why you assume this.  I am by no means any sort of
expert on the subject, but I believe the initial leap from system 9 to
system X presented the biggest hurdle for Finale, and that shouldn't be the
case now on any sort of regular basis.
True, I guess. But weren't there a few Jaguar apps that wouldn't work 
correctly in Panther?

I wrote:
 > 4. I think I should order the Power Mac G5 before Tiger comes out
 (i.e., soon!), since I have this project due in September. Does this
 sound like a good idea?
Darcy James Argue wrote:
No, that's actually a very bad idea, because then you will have to pay
an extra $129 for Tiger when it is released.  If you hold off buying
your new Mac until 10.4 is released, you will get 10.4 for free -- it
will be preinstalled on your computer.
I had thought that Apple might have an Up-To-Date program where I 
could upgrade to Tiger for $20 if I bought a Power Mac just before 
Tiger was released. I called Apple today but they are noncommittal 
about whether they will do this.

Eric Dussault wrote:
EPS export takes forever on ANY system. I have a PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8
GHz with 1 GB of Ram, and it doesn't make any difference.
...and Hiroaki Honshuk wrote:
Did I tell you I bought G5 Dual 2.5GHz a month ago?
How long does it take you gentlemen to export one page from a score or part?
Hiroaki Honshuk wrote:
 If you wait for a machine that doesn't run Panther, and you
find some of your app won't run reliably with Tiger, you are done.
Could you still install Panther alongside Tiger and then pick which 
one you want to start up with?

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[Finale] Re: [OT] programming iKey

[shirling & neueweise]

it seems that iKeys is sending an extra return early in the sequence 
on all but the first run.   maybe there is something i have 
overlooked or misunderstood: would anyone be willing to have a look 
at a couple of scripts i have defined (please contact me privately)?

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Re: [Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

[Christopher Smith]

Already got it. I'm just helping out the poor deluded souls who haven't 
seen the light yet. 8-)

Christopher
On Mar 21, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hey guys,
Get Copyists Helper, already!  Seriously.  These workarounds are 
clever, I'll admit, but none of them approach the simplicity and 
usefulness of Robert's plugin.

- Darcy
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brooklyn, NY
On 21 Mar 2005, at 3:13 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Mar 21, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 08:05 AM 03/21/2005, dhbailey wrote:
>What I do is to have a small header in the center of every page of 
my
>score, which I ensure gets extracted along with the parts.  Then 
it's an
>easy matter to add something like "-- Instrument" to the header 
that's
>already there.

Yes, now we've come full circle. This is exactly what I suggested in 
my first reply to the original poster. 

Jonathan Smith seemed to be suggesting that Finale could automate 
the recurring page headers -- and it can, but only if you then do 
the p.1 header by hand.

One thing that is rather easy to do:
In your score, instead of the word "Instrument" that you have to 
change later, select the Text tool then from the Text menu> Insert > 
Description.

Once the parts are extracted, in each individual file you go to the 
File menu, where you select File Info and enter the instrument name 
in the Description field. The insert will be changed automatically.

This still means that you have to change things manually at least 
once. Where this really gets useful is if you have to edit an 
instrument name more than once, like if you are using Special Part 
Extraction, where the staff name header is not created automatically.

Christopher
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Re: [Finale] Re: [OT] programming iKey

[A-NO-NE Music]

shirling & neueweise / 05.3.21 / 04:27 PM wrote:

>dammit, this thing is supposed to be SAVING me time!

I am not sure why you are having that much problem.  Getting iKey program
done for me is 2 minutes thing usually.

I just posted this, hoping it could be a some help:




-- 

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[Finale] Re: [OT] programming iKey

[shirling & neueweise]

once again, seconds after sending a message i find the (partial) 
solution.  it turns out (or seems to have turned out so) that certain 
tasks - for example mouse simuation - can't be done while the iKey 
editor is open, even though i was updating everytime.

also something that i found to be helpful was to set a "move to 0/0" 
at the start of each mouse simulation sequence, because sometimes it 
was clicking outside the windows, apparently using relative values 
for positioning in the active window instead of absolute (?).

i had also reduced most of the pauses to 0, but apparently this has 
to be done quite a bit more judiciously than i had done...

hiro wrote:
Finale is not giving that dialog box as a window so you have to go by
absolute screen position.  The good news is Finale always put it to the
consistent position so it does work.  I am using it.
i tried that as well, but i am finding that _only_ the first time i 
use it works properly, then after that it seems the Press Enter 
command is somehow sent before the mouse clicks, even when i tell it 
to wait one second before doing it!?  so i get the "nothing selected 
to move or copy" message.

and actually, this happens whichever sequence i try to use after a 
first successful sequence run, i can only do another successful one 
by going back to the editor, and quitting again to return to finale. 
even when i insert a Make Pause command (of 5 seconds!), the final 
Press Enter (or Return) jumps the gun.

dammit, this thing is supposed to be SAVING me time!
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Re: [Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

[Darcy James Argue]

Hey guys,
Get Copyists Helper, already!  Seriously.  These workarounds are 
clever, I'll admit, but none of them approach the simplicity and 
usefulness of Robert's plugin.

- Darcy
-
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On 21 Mar 2005, at 3:13 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Mar 21, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 08:05 AM 03/21/2005, dhbailey wrote:
>What I do is to have a small header in the center of every page of my
>score, which I ensure gets extracted along with the parts.  Then 
it's an
>easy matter to add something like "-- Instrument" to the header 
that's
>already there.

Yes, now we've come full circle. This is exactly what I suggested in 
my first reply to the original poster. 

Jonathan Smith seemed to be suggesting that Finale could automate the 
recurring page headers -- and it can, but only if you then do the p.1 
header by hand.

One thing that is rather easy to do:
In your score, instead of the word "Instrument" that you have to 
change later, select the Text tool then from the Text menu> Insert > 
Description.

Once the parts are extracted, in each individual file you go to the 
File menu, where you select File Info and enter the instrument name in 
the Description field. The insert will be changed automatically.

This still means that you have to change things manually at least 
once. Where this really gets useful is if you have to edit an 
instrument name more than once, like if you are using Special Part 
Extraction, where the staff name header is not created automatically.

Christopher
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Re: [Finale] Re: [OT] programming iKey

[A-NO-NE Music]

shirling & neueweise / 05.3.21 / 02:07 PM wrote:

>- Move to 103, 151 (Top/Left) [in active window]


Ah, OK, this is the problem.
Finale is not giving that dialog box as a window so you have to go by
absolute screen position.  The good news is Finale always put it to the
consistent position so it does work.  I am using it.


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[Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

[Jonathan Smith]

There is another work around for this, and it is what I'd call 
automated - in the sense that you can apply the extract to a complete 
score of parts.

Put in your score a text block on page 1 with a text insert of 'File 
name' selected. Set it up with your larger or unique font settings for 
your page 1 instrument names.

Go to Extract parts and use the 'options' for your instr. fonts, sizes 
and positions for pages 2 onwards.

In the 'Generate names from' prompt just leave it as %s, nothing else.
This should give you your parts with the 2 different settings for page 
1 and other settings for 2 onwards. The only  drawback is that the new 
extracted file names will only be the instrument names, but this 
doesn't take long to change and I'm sure there's some script that can 
batch rename files for you anyway, if you want to get really automated, 
yes?

Jonathan
On 21 Mar 2005, at 19:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 08:05 AM 03/21/2005, dhbailey wrote:
What I do is to have a small header in the center of every page of my
score, which I ensure gets extracted along with the parts.  Then it's 
an
easy matter to add something like "-- Instrument" to the header that's
already there.
Yes, now we've come full circle. This is exactly what I suggested in my
first reply to the original poster. 
Jonathan Smith seemed to be suggesting that Finale could automate the
recurring page headers -- and it can, but only if you then do the p.1
header by hand.

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[Finale] Playback Possibilities

[Dean M. Estabrook]

Listers:
I just came back from a CMEA conference wherein a Finale Rep had a 
display booth. He was playing back an orchestral score for demo 
purposes. I noticed that the sound of his instruments was a lot more 
realistic than my playback at home. I asked him what special playback 
system he was using and he said, "Just the regular stuff which comes 
with Finale 04/05."  He then told me a few steps to render  my MacFin 
04 sound much more realistic, but I can't remember the steps (you know 
how conventions are).  I thiink he mentioned something about "Smart 
Playback ? Any clues out there as to what settings he tweaked to 
achieve said results?

Dean

"There are some people, I suspect, who would feel obscurely  cheated 
if, when they finally arrived in heaven,  they found everybody else 
there as well.  Heaven would not be heaven unless those who reached it 
could peer over the celestial parapets and watch other unfortunates 
roasting below."

Karen Armstrong
Dean M. Estabrook
Retired Church Musician
Composer, Arranger
Adjudicator
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Re: [Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

[Christopher Smith]

On Mar 21, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 08:05 AM 03/21/2005, dhbailey wrote:
>What I do is to have a small header in the center of every page of my
>score, which I ensure gets extracted along with the parts.  Then it's 
an
>easy matter to add something like "-- Instrument" to the header that's
>already there.

Yes, now we've come full circle. This is exactly what I suggested in 
my first reply to the original poster. 

Jonathan Smith seemed to be suggesting that Finale could automate the 
recurring page headers -- and it can, but only if you then do the p.1 
header by hand.

One thing that is rather easy to do:
In your score, instead of the word "Instrument" that you have to change 
later, select the Text tool then from the Text menu> Insert > 
Description.

Once the parts are extracted, in each individual file you go to the 
File menu, where you select File Info and enter the instrument name in 
the Description field. The insert will be changed automatically.

This still means that you have to change things manually at least once. 
Where this really gets useful is if you have to edit an instrument name 
more than once, like if you are using Special Part Extraction, where 
the staff name header is not created automatically.

Christopher
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[Finale] Re: [OT] programming iKey

[shirling & neueweise]

hi hiro, thanks.
I was wondering why you would need to do this since Finale gives you
Opt+Cmd+(n) for Layer selection...?
ah yes, sorry that was unclear, i meant to move the content of layer 
1->2 and 2->1 , not just switch between them.

If you really want to hack into layer list, you just measure the list
position from left bottom corner of the main window.  I do this for
scroll right/left.
how do i measure it?  there is a function which records the placement 
of the mouse (click on the arrow icon), when i do this (it 
automatically takes me to the application i choose to simulate the 
mouse click in), it set coordinates, but when running the sequence, 
these mouse clicks aren't done (i even set pauses to see if that 
would change anything... it didn't).

i have managed to get several sequences running, but none that 
involve mouse clicks in the active window.

for example:
1) mass edit menu: change noteheads...
2) select (click mouse) "change to selected notehead" < doesn't work!
   - Move to 103, 151 (Top/Left) [in active window]
   - Click
3) Press "tab"
4) Type "H"
5) Press "return"
if i split the sequence into two sequences (containing step 1, and 
steps 3-5), everything works, i simply can't get the mouse simulation 
to work.

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Re: [Finale] Military Music & Napoleon

[Mariposa Symphony Orchestra]

Daniel Wolf Wrote:
 

  Napoleon's court composers were 
  Paisiello (through 1803) and Le Sueur (also written as Lesueur, from 1804). 
  IMO Le Sueur is unjustly overlooked as being only Berlioz's teacher.  
  Among the other composers of the era Nicholas-Marie Dalayrac is a personal 
  favorite.
And I (Les) add, at the risk of getting a 
little too esoteric:
 
To up the generational tutorial lineage 
leading to Berlioz by one, Le Sueur's own teacher was Abbot Nicolas 
Roze.   During the 3-hour musical proceedings 
on the December 2, 1804 date of Napoleon's coronation, LeSueur conducted 
Paisiello's Mass and Te Deum and as well some of his own motets and also his own 
'Marche du sacre de Napoleon' from January, 1804 (which had actually 
been commissioned by Napoleon for the camp at Boulogne.)   Recycling; 
why not?   During the coronation proceedings Le Sueur also included a 
VERY brief 'Vivat' by Roze to pay homage to his teacher and it's a really fine 
though very short piece for four-part chorus, full orchestra with 
added brass and percussion.    All the (above-mentioned) 
music has been re-created on a cd of 'Coronation Music for Napoleon I' on 
Koch-Schwann (3-1208-2.)     
 
To return to Giovanni's original 
question, though, I'd also list Reicha's Marche Funebre (written between 1809 - 
1815 while he lived in Paris,) and to move beyond the 1815 parameter 
and into the Second Empire, there are also some very fine works 
by Francois Coqueterre (Entree des francais dans Sebastopol,) Edouard Ernst 
(Bolero Imperial) and Leon Meyer (Bolero) and more = some of which were 
commissioned for and/or performed by the Grande Harmonie de Paris - 
which was  trained by Adolphe Sax under Napoleon III's 
regimental commission.
 
Best, 
 
Les

 
Les MarsdenFounding Music Director and Conductor, The Mariposa 
Symphony OrchestraMusic and Mariposa?  Ah, Paradise!!!
 
http://arts-mariposa.org/symphony.htmlhttp://www.sierratel.com/mcf/nprc/mso.htm
 

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Giovanni Andreani 
  To: Finale list 
  Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 5:00 
AM
  Subject: [Finale] Military Music
  This is surely off topic, but I've the feeling that someone in 
  this listmay have an answer.I'm looking for the music played by the 
  Napoleonic military forcesespecially between 1804 and 1815. Any help would 
  be enourmosly appreciated.Thank you in advanceGiovanni 
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Re: [Finale] [OT] programming iKey

[A-NO-NE Music]

shirling & neueweise / 05.3.21 / 11:55 AM wrote:

>for example: toggle "select partial measures" using opt-sh-p

I may be one of the very minor who doesn't have any problem with iKey2 :-)

Context -> Finale
Command -> Menu -> select the menu item and leave it as default ID
Launcher -> hotkey of your choice

Doesn't seem helping you much, but I found setting up for Finale quite easy.

>alright it doesn't seem to be that easy after all... the "Simulate 
>mouse in active window" step doesn't seem to work, whenever i run a 
>script to switch layers 1<->2 it tells me nothing is selected (i did 
>define the "move to" positions and "click") and brings the iKey 
>editor to the front...

I was wondering why you would need to do this since Finale gives you
Opt+Cmd+(n) for Layer selection...?

If you really want to hack into layer list, you just measure the list
position from left bottom corner of the main window.  I do this for
scroll right/left.

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[Finale] Re: [OT] programming iKey

[shirling & neueweise]

alright it doesn't seem to be that easy after all... the "Simulate 
mouse in active window" step doesn't seem to work, whenever i run a 
script to switch layers 1<->2 it tells me nothing is selected (i did 
define the "move to" positions and "click") and brings the iKey 
editor to the front...

ack.
maybe it would actually be helpful to see a couple of scripts, if 
anyone's got a few they could share.

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Re: [Finale] OT Mac Trackballs

[Chuck Israels]

Michael,

I use the Kensington optical trackball with good success.  The old mechanical ones had a nice "ballistic" feel to them - a little momentum that would keep the ball rolling a little after you sent it in one direction or another, that I liked.  It helped in covering large distances on a large monitor.  The optical one has three Teflon support bearings for the trackball which are smooth enough, but have more friction than the steel rollers that were in the older models, so the feel is a little "stiffer."  I am now used to the new one, and it's fine.  The big advantage for me is that trackballs do not need space to move.  I am irritated by that aspect of using a mouse with a large monitor, though most people have an easier time with pointing accuracy with mice.  I'm so used to the trackball that I have no problems with it.

Chuck


On Mar 21, 2005, at 2:01 AM, Michael Cook wrote:

An off-topic question for Mac users: for my new iMac I want to replace the mouse with a trackball. I use a Kensington Orbit Trackball with the old Mac: I'm very happy with it, the only drawback being that it's hard to clean the little rollers. Does anybody have experiences (good or bad) with optical trackballs? It would be nice to have a scroll-wheel as well: any ideas?

Best wishes,

Michael Cook

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[Finale] [OT] programming iKey

[shirling & neueweise]

would someone be able to send me a couple of examples of basic iKey 
scripts for finale, i can't figure out how to programme the damn 
things!

for example: toggle "select partial measures" using opt-sh-p
i got as far as defining, naming and assigning a key combo to a 
sequence which appears in the iKey menu when finale is running, but 
haven't managed to actually implement the steps necessary to running 
the script.

cheers,
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[Finale] Re: [OT] programming iKey

[shirling & neueweise]

okay, that was embarrassing, i figured it out immediately after 
sending the message...

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Re: [Finale] Military Music

[Daniel Wolf]

Napoleon's court composers were Paisiello (through 1803) and Le Sueur 
(also written as Lesueur, from 1804). IMO Le Sueur is unjustly 
overlooked as being only Berlioz's teacher.  Among the other composers 
of the era Nicholas-Marie Dalayrac is a personal favorite.

This webpage is dedicated to music of the first and second empires:
http://www.napoleon.org/fr/friandises/musique/index.asp
This recording -- played by a Beligian ensemble -- is a nice survey of 
the French march tradition:

http://www.encoremusic.com/band/8913408.html
Daniel Wolf

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Re: [Finale] OT Mac Trackballs

[A-NO-NE Music]

Michael Cook / 05.3.21 / 05:01 AM wrote:

>An off-topic question for Mac users: for my new iMac I want to replace 
>the mouse with a trackball. I use a Kensington Orbit Trackball with the 
>old Mac: I'm very happy with it, the only drawback being that it's hard 
>to clean the little rollers. Does anybody have experiences (good or 
>bad) with optical trackballs? It would be nice to have a scroll-wheel 
>as well: any ideas?

I have been using Kensington TurboMouse since 1987 with MacPlus, and
bought many more for Windows machines, Linux machines as well as Macs in
my studio.

On the other hand, I had to trash 3 Orbits.  Unlike TuroMouse, Orbit is
almost impossible to clean when it gets to certain point.

By the way, I use gel pad to raise palm so TurboMouse never gives me any
strain on my arm :-)

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Re: [Finale] Military Music

[Guy Hayden]

First I need to say that my conclusion here is mostly conjecture.
Years ago I was organiste-titulaire at Notre Dame des Victoires (the French 
Church) in San Francisco.  I asked the pastor, a French priest from Paris, 
why it is that such a very small amount of organ music remains from the 
Napoleonic era.  His reply was that Napoleon raided the churchs and seized 
all the metal to make munitions, particularly cannon balls.  There were few 
if any operable pipe organs around and no players!  The wooden pipes 
remained but all the metal alloys (and there are many) used for organ pipes 
were melted down.

My guess is that Napoleon's armies marched to drum cadences and perhap 
musettes or wooden fifes but trumpets and horns may have become gun fodder.

Guy Hayden
- Original Message - 

Giovanni Andreani wrote:
This is surely off topic, but I've the feeling that someone in this list
may have an answer.
I'm looking for the music played by the Napoleonic military forces
especially between 1804 and 1815. Any help would be enourmosly 
appreciated.
Thank you in advance

Giovanni Andreani

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Re: [Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

[Aaron Sherber]

At 08:05 AM 03/21/2005, dhbailey wrote:
>What I do is to have a small header in the center of every page of my
>score, which I ensure gets extracted along with the parts.  Then it's an
>easy matter to add something like "-- Instrument" to the header that's
>already there.
Yes, now we've come full circle. This is exactly what I suggested in my 
first reply to the original poster. 

Jonathan Smith seemed to be suggesting that Finale could automate the 
recurring page headers -- and it can, but only if you then do the p.1 
header by hand.

Aaron.
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Re: [Finale] Military Music

[YATESLAWRENCE]

I don't know for certain but I would almost put money on there being 
something of this sort recorded by the "Garde Republicaine" band.  
They are, I believe a branch of the French Police. Try a google.
 
It is wonderfully stirring stuff.
 
All the best.
 
Lawrence
 
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Re: [Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

[dhbailey]

Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 06:23 AM 03/21/2005, Jonathan Smith wrote:
 >For instrument names on all pages try this:
 >
 >File Menu - Extract parts - Options - Create Staff or Group names
 >
 >Here you can specify fonts, positions and which pages ranges you
 >require.
The problem with this is that I think many of us like one kind of header 
on p.1 (largish, on the left side of the page) and another kind of 
header on p.2 ff. (smaller, centered at top). At least, that's one 
fairly standard way of doing things. If you use the above option to 
create the p.1 header (which I think is how it is set up by default), 
you have to manually tweak the recurring header on p.2; if you use this 
option for the recurrning header, you have to manually do the p.1 
header. Either way is the same amount of work, and the point is there's 
no way to get Finale to automatically do both.

What I do is to have a small header in the center of every page of my 
score, which I ensure gets extracted along with the parts.  Then it's an 
easy matter to add something like "-- Instrument" to the header that's 
already there.

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Re: [Finale] Military Music

[dhbailey]

Giovanni Andreani wrote:
This is surely off topic, but I've the feeling that someone in this list
may have an answer.
I'm looking for the music played by the Napoleonic military forces
especially between 1804 and 1815. Any help would be enourmosly appreciated.
Thank you in advance
Giovanni Andreani
I bet they didn't play the 1812 Overture nor Wellington's Victory!
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[Finale] Military Music

[Giovanni Andreani]

This is surely off topic, but I've the feeling that someone in this list
may have an answer.
I'm looking for the music played by the Napoleonic military forces
especially between 1804 and 1815. Any help would be enourmosly appreciated.
Thank you in advance

Giovanni Andreani


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Re: [Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

[Aaron Sherber]

At 06:23 AM 03/21/2005, Jonathan Smith wrote:
>For instrument names on all pages try this:
>
>File Menu - Extract parts - Options - Create Staff or Group names
>
>Here you can specify fonts, positions and which pages ranges you
>require.
The problem with this is that I think many of us like one kind of header on 
p.1 (largish, on the left side of the page) and another kind of header on 
p.2 ff. (smaller, centered at top). At least, that's one fairly standard 
way of doing things. If you use the above option to create the p.1 header 
(which I think is how it is set up by default), you have to manually tweak 
the recurring header on p.2; if you use this option for the recurrning 
header, you have to manually do the p.1 header. Either way is the same 
amount of work, and the point is there's no way to get Finale to 
automatically do both.

Aaron. 

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Re: [Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

[Robert Patterson]

One of the functions of my Copyist Helper plugin is to address the issue 
of staff & instrument names in extracted parts. In the score copy from 
which you extract the parts you create template headers that contain 
some arbitrary placeholder text like "$$$Staffname". (You define the 
placeholder text.) Then when you run the plugin on the extracted part it 
substitutes the actual staff name for the template value.

It is even more powerful if you have a doubling part that switches 
between instruments and you want to show the current instrument name in 
addition to the staff name. Visit the website below and click on the 
Copyist Helper link for more info.

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[Finale] Tweaking Exported Parts

[Jonathan Smith]

Gerry,
I don't see a problem with any of these. Firstly I assume you mean 
'Extract' the parts rather than export (which you can do for MIDI files 
and ain't the same).

For instrument names on all pages try this:
File Menu - Extract parts - Options - Create Staff or Group names
Here you can specify fonts, positions and which pages ranges you 
require. Finale will strip the staff name you have given the score 
staves so if it is not as you want it either make a file copy for 
extract and change the names or a good work around is to use staff 
names for your score and then also put in group names but uncheck them 
so they don't show in the score but will come out in the parts - best 
of both worlds if you want say Flts 1 2, 3, etc.  Once this is set up 
in your template you never need to do it again!

Spacing of systems comes under:
Option menu - page format - Parts
Here you can specify a whole range of parameters for how yo want your 
parts to look in difference to your score layout. Again, once set in a 
score template it's a breeze.

Page breaks:
This is not possible to set prior to extract and for good reason - a 
page 4 break of your score is probably not likely to be page 4 in the 
part. But you can set up the systems to break and restart on any 
barline by using the Measure attributes tool and clicking on a barline, 
you could do this at the end of a multi measure rest (and before). I 
usually put in a 'Begin a new system' after very key change and double 
bar which is helpful to the players and M.D. if kept consistent (esp. 
in show and studio work) and keeps the look of the parts clean and 
legible.

Where this all helps is that all the extracted parts will break a line 
at that same point in the music and you only need to use the page 
layout tool to 'force' the page breaks when you edit the parts. 
Personally, I don't like all my large ensemble and orchestral parts to 
turn at the same moment for obvious reasons

Hope this helps, read up on extracting parts in the OLM, it's well 
worth the effort.

Jonathan
 On 20 Mar 2005, at 18:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whenever I write an arrangement and then create parts via "export," I
spend (unnecessary?) time tweaking the individual parts. Specifically,
how do I--
--have the name of the instrument appear on all pages following p. 1.
--keep spacing of systems consistent after p. 1
--make page breaks appear where they are beneficial to players (such as
at multi-measure rests)
Basically, I guess I am asking where is a tutorial on creating exported
parts?
Gerry Kirk

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[Finale] OT Mac Trackballs

[Michael Cook]

An off-topic question for Mac users: for my new iMac I want to replace 
the mouse with a trackball. I use a Kensington Orbit Trackball with the 
old Mac: I'm very happy with it, the only drawback being that it's hard 
to clean the little rollers. Does anybody have experiences (good or 
bad) with optical trackballs? It would be nice to have a scroll-wheel 
as well: any ideas?

Best wishes,
Michael Cook
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