Re: [Finale] More about blank notation

The point may be moot, since the 2004 disks for OS9 have allegedly begun shipping...but here's the issue anyway: I frequently want to put chord symbols (indicating harmony changes) over held notes--e.g., a whole note is held, but on beat 3 a suspension resolves (or, heck, we just go from one chord

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2004b sys 9 -- horrible

At 2:15 PM -0700 4/20/04, Philip Aker wrote: I think it best if the OS 9 version was dropped. In fact, it might have been cheaper for Coda to buy the 2 users still running it new G5s rather than pay the engineers for the several months of effort put into it. Philip Aker Hmm, one would be me.

Re: [Finale] Trombone grace note interpretation

I'm wondering if there are any trombone players/experts out here. My question is, how would a trombonist generally interpret a grace note with a slur onto another note about a 2nd lower (in a 20th century score)?: a. Would they soft-tongue the second note? I certainly would, in a non-jazz conte

Re: [Finale] Asymmetric time signatures

At 3:30 PM -0700 4/12/04, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On 4/12/04 3:06 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: My preference, from a performer's perspective, would be to have the whole thing in 20/8, and use dotted barlines to show the irregular subdivisions. I have two different suggestions: 1. Like Owain suggested,

Re: [Finale] Automatically Numbered Rehearsal Numbers

At 11:39 AM -0400 4/12/04, David W. Fenton wrote: On 11 Apr 2004 at 22:22, Giz Bowe wrote: In the measure number box, go to Style, where you can define a measuring number system. Add a region (so region 1 will number measures conventionally). Experiment with the base numbering system. How do I

Re: [Finale] Disappearing chord symbols

At 11:49 AM -0500 4/09/04, Joel Sears wrote: Christopher, Yes, I do mean stemmed slashes and I'm pretty sure that I was in the Define Staff Styles window. I just compared it to my FinMac 2001 at work and the window seemed to be the same, only in 2k1 it works as advertised and in 2k4 it doesn't.

Re: [Finale] Disappearing chord symbols

At 9:55 AM -0500 4/09/04, Joel Sears wrote: Hi fellow listers, Please help. On FinMac 2004, my chord symbols disappear when I place them over rhythmic slash notation. The OLM talks about the Alternate Notation window. I think this has worked for me in the past. "Show Items Attached to Notes" bo

Re: [Finale] Conventional Metronome Mark

At 4:45 PM +0200 4/08/04, Giovanni Andreani wrote: Thank you David, and all who answered to my question. I didn't get to explain myself correctly. Her's how it stands: I've got, lets say, a 16 bars melody in 3/8 and a metronome value as: sixteenth = 120. I want to display the metronome's pulse over

Re: [Finale] Dash Line on Hook Length

Hello Is there any way I can have a dashed hook length (the one normally used after the 8va/8vb dashed line)? Finale seems to provide and edit only a non-dashed hook, while one can edit the dashed horizontal line, in the Smart Shape Options dialog box. Thank you Giovanni You are right that you c

Re: [Finale] Time Signature question

At 10:42 AM -0800 4/01/04, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On 4/1/04 9:48 AM, Ken Parsons wrote: How do you enter two time signatures for a piece that oscillates back and forth between them - e.g. 3/4 & 6/8? I'd like to enter these in the first measure, and not have to put them in every time the grouping

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

At 9:27 PM -0500 4/01/04, Darcy James Argue wrote: For those who actually have the issue -- what's the cover date? I looked in the Brooklyn Barnes and Noble today, and they have the April issue, which didn't have the Finale vs. Sibelius. Did I miss it already, or are B&N an issue behind? - Da

Re: [Finale] Help with scripting

At 3:06 PM +1000 4/01/04, Paul Copeland wrote: Hello. I hope someone will be kind enough to help me with scripting please. Thank you. I have about 30 midi files that I want to notate. I also have a file template that I want to use. Is it possible to 1. Load each midi file in to Finale. 2. Copy th

Re: [Finale] Sibelius survey

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Re: [Finale] Sibelius survey

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Re: [Finale] Another Music Spacing Issue

I ran into the same bug in FinMac 2003, and reported it, and apparently it is a problem with the way the feature was implemented, to be corrected in later versions (I haven't checked in 2004, as I rarely use OSX these days.) The way around it is to enter the passage with the dots and the secon

Re: [Finale] Kyle Gann's Articles on Sibelius

At 3:04 PM -0500 3/25/04, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 25 Mar 2004, at 02:55 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: (replying to a message that he himself wrote! Ever get the feeling that you're just talking to yourself? 8-) Christopher ___ Finale mailing list [E

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

At 3:19 AM -0500 3/25/04, Darcy James Argue wrote: I should mention that I found out about this issue of Keyboard from composer (and Village Voice new music critic) Kyle Gann, who has some thoughts on his blog about Sibelius (his music notation software of choice) and about the influence of nota

Re: [Finale] help with cross-staff percussion notation (v.2003)

At 8:52 PM -0500 3/24/04, Ed Klinger wrote: Christopher, Thanks very much for the reply. It's very effective, at least for notating. What I'm running into, though, is that the notes I want to hear aren't being played back- when I 'pull' the notes into their new staff, they are always 'dropped' i

Re: [Finale] help with cross-staff percussion notation (v.2003)

At 7:06 PM -0500 3/24/04, Ed Klinger wrote: Hello all. I am trying to notate a percussion duo where each player plays several instruments. Certain figures played 'across' two (or more) instruments would be best notated by cross-staff beaming, e.g. playing a two-handed figure with each hand on a

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

At 5:36 PM -0500 3/24/04, Darcy James Argue wrote: (sadly, the article is not available online) Anyone read this? - Darcy Yep! What did you think? As someone who has used both, you should be in a good position to critique the review. Some quotes: "Sibelius is a

Re: [Finale] Arrow fonts

Title: Re: [Finale] Arrow fonts Hi,     Would anyone know of a font that would have vertical filled in arrows with a short stem on them?  I am using win98 and Finale 2004.     Any help would surely be appreciated. George Ports   There are four arrows in the font that was installed with Word Per

Re: [Finale] Spacing with blank notation in Layer 1

At 2:17 PM -0500 3/17/04, David W. Fenton wrote: On 17 Mar 2004 at 9:35, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 7:51 PM -0500 3/16/04, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Why should blank notation be used in spacing? So that chord symbols attached to blank items can be taken into account for spacing. S

Re: [Finale] Getting a barline at the start of ech line

On Tuesday, March 16, 2004, at 11:34 PM, Klaas de Jong wrote: The point is that for Finale there's only one barline: the one to the right. Only the first measure in a system has a 'left' barline also. I think this may be the cause of some confusion. Speaking of which, I've never understood the s

Re: [Finale] Spacing with blank notation in Layer 1

At 7:51 PM -0500 3/16/04, David W. Fenton wrote: Why should blank notation be used in spacing? So that chord symbols attached to blank items can be taken into account for spacing. So that hidden items could add extra space without appearing, to make room for things that you need to add as grap

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

At 5:10 PM -0500 3/16/04, Phil Daley wrote: At 3/16/2004 01:57 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I can't image what possible purpose there would be in maximizing a scroll view. Whole width, obviously, but maximized would have at least 50% of the screen blank below the scroll view. But so what? Wha

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

At 12:19 AM -0800 3/17/04, Mark D Lew wrote: I too find it odd that someone never zooms larger than 100%. I usually do speedy entry at 100% in scroll view. Almost everything else I do at 200%, or sometimes 150%. mdl I thought I was odd before (or had an old monitor) but I see I'm not alone.

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

At 2:06 PM -0500 3/16/04, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: If I could have a screen the size of my desk, it still wouldn't be enough. Every application is always maximized if it allows that (and these "designy" applications with fixed borders -- arrgh!). Yeah! I hear ya! I want every pixel to be work

Re: [Finale] Double sharps, douible flats

At 7:22 AM -0500 3/08/04, Crystal Premo wrote: Am I correct in my assumption that the double sharps and flats which frequently appear when you transpose a piece are actually the *correct pitches*? However awkward they may be, and however appropriate it may be to simplify them through editing (a

Re: [Finale] "non-rhythmic" pitch entry???

At 1:36 PM -0800 3/07/04, MDM wrote: Hi all. I want to create some examples for my jazz students, and I need to enter pitches into a measure without regard to rhythm. In other works, whole note, whole note, quarter note head, whole note, etc. The note heads would be "graphic" elements only. Is the

Re: [Finale] Re: F2003a won't print to acrobat

At 9:19 AM +0100 3/07/04, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 07.03.2004 2:19 Uhr, Christopher BJ Smith wrote This is a routine I got from this list (I think it was Johannes Gebauer, thanks loads, man!) Not me, I don't have Acrobat... Johannes Dang. Well, whoever you were who gave me that

Re: [Finale] Translation about Snare drum

That would be "on the shell", to use the percussion-specific term. Christopher At 5:11 PM -0800 3/06/04, Ryan Beard wrote: Pierre, I think "le fšt" literally means "the barrel." So I take it to mean "play on the side of the instrument." Ryan === Hi all, Do you know the r

[Finale] Re: F2003a won't print to acrobat

At 3:08 PM -0700 3/06/04, jef chippewa wrote: i haven't solved the problem yet, but have narrowed the scope down a bit. macfin2k3a printing to acrobat v.5, G4/400 OS 9.2.2/384 RAM, finale accorded 75M. jef, This is a routine I got from this list (I think it was Johannes Gebauer, thanks load

Re: [Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions

At 9:06 AM +0100 3/06/04, Mario Aschauer wrote: Mark Wrote: I was assuming that Mario learned English as a second language, so I wondered if some outdated source was inadvertently teaching archaic plural forms which are no longer idiomatic. In fact, I did learn English as a second language. Inst

Re: [Finale] It's official...

At 10:39 PM -0500 3/01/04, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: ...as of this afternoon, so I can announce it. I'm very pleased to tell my Finale friends that I have received the annual commission from the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. The new work will be premiered on September 22, My birthday! and play

Re: [Finale] Microtonal accidental size.

At 3:57 PM -0500 2/29/04, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:40 PM 2/29/2004, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: You can adjust individual accidentals' size one at a time with the Special Tool's Accidental Mover.  This looks a little bit like a bug. You can select multiple accidentals within a measur

Re: [Finale] Microtonal accidental size.

Title: Re: [Finale] Microtonal accidental size. At 3:37 PM +0100 2/29/04, Bettina Crimmins wrote: Does anyone know how to change the font size of eighth-tone accidentals?   I have set up the score using non-standard key signature to allow 8 steps per whole-tone and allocated the symbols I wish to

Re: [Finale] Anti-spam white list nonsense.

At 9:03 AM +1100 2/29/04, Michael Edwards wrote: Well, would there be any future in asking Henry to do something about it? And maybe to bar posting from non-members? Most lists I'm on require you to be a member in order to post messages. However, Henry seems to want to leave things exactly

Re: [OT] Re: [Finale] Just noticed Graphire manual online [plus rant]

At 12:07 PM -0500 2/27/04, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Speaking of the Polansky, I need an 'approximate equals' sign in one of the music fonts (the curved equal sign) to add before dynamic markings. Anybody seen one? In Avant Garde font on my Mac under Opt-x I have that symbol. Hope that helps.

Re: [Finale] Re: Horns and signatures

At 2:22 PM -0500 2/27/04, John Howell wrote: What about new shows? Are they finally getting away from hand copy and producing computer-engraved parts? Yes! Many are, and strangely, they have enabled in Finale that weird hold-over from hand-copying of only showing keys on the first system of e

Re: [Finale] [OT] Re: Horns and intonation

At 9:49 AM +0200 2/24/04, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote: > The narrow, cookie-cutter rim on a horn mouthpiece doesn't help with reliability, either. What would happen if you put a trumpet mouthpiece on a horn? Obviously it would be worse, but in what way, since you say the present horn mouthpiece d

Re: [Finale] [OT] Re: Horns and intonation

At 3:24 PM -0500 2/23/04, Andrew Stiller wrote: I have long wondered whether or not the french horn could be considered the most difficult orchestral instrument to master. Liudas ___ The bore of a horn is the same length as that of a bass trombone. Yo

Re: [Finale] Hyphen under rest?

At 1:23 PM -0800 2/22/04, Mark D Lew wrote: Hyphens continuing under the rest is correct. I wouldn't call it rare. I've even seen it in pop music. mdl "Rocky Horror Picture Show", opening number, lyric at one point is "antici-" bar or so rest "pation!" Very effective.

Re: [Finale] Spacing and other problems

Title: Re: [Finale] Spacing and other problems At 9:12 PM -0500 2/15/04, dr.a.s. weinstangel wrote: I am running into spacing problems in typesetting cantorial free-improvisational segments in one of my choral works.     In selected bars I need to space the material in the solo voice independen

Re: [Finale] Phantom Word Extension

At 5:30 PM -0500 2/15/04, Marc Shepherd wrote: I'm using Finale 2004's automatic word extensions. The file I'm editing was created using an earlier release of Finale, but I've upgraded the file and saved it in F2004 format. The problem is that a "phantom" word extension is appearing--a word ext

Re: [Finale] Measure number Plug in request

At 7:40 PM -0500 2/15/04, Darcy James Argue wrote: Actually, we just had this discussion with Bob Florence. Though I'm sure Robert's plugin makes this easier, I question the wisdom of having two sets of measure numbers for repeated sections in the first place. I know this is an old manuscript

Re: [Finale] 1st and 2nd Endings -- Automatic Dots after the numbers,

At 12:40 PM +0100 2/15/04, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Thing is, as far as I can tell, none of this is a "bug", it is by design. And it works more or less. The one thing I would really like to see changed with repeat brackets is a system similar to staff lists in Expressions, whereby I can define a rep

Re: [Finale] Avoiding Articulation Collisions

At 7:36 PM -0500 2/12/04, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 12 Feb 2004, at 07:23 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Of course, it doesn't help me with the bowings I've already put in. Sorry, no. If there are more colliding upbows and downbows than not, you might want to swap the modified bow markings for the

Re: [Finale] Film Scores

At 2:19 AM + 2/12/04, John Bell wrote: I haven't marked this OT, since I imagine that a number of members do work from time to time in this field. If this is a misjudgment, I apologise. I am currently working as an orchestrator on a film for Warner Brothers. They have a agreed to a rate of

Re: [Finale] lyric and chord spacing

At 11:23 PM -0600 2/10/04, Don Hart wrote: Thanks, Mark and Christopher. You guys and a few notable others always seem to take the time to help out even (maybe especially) when Finale is having a little trouble holding up its end of the bargain. Well, I'm not in engraving for publication very mu

Re: [Finale] lyric and chord spacing

You were pretty clear. I have the same darned problems. For the chords, I generally turn off taking chords into account when music spacing, and only turn it on to respace passages where there is a chord on every entry. Or I increase the measure size for that measure only, or manually respace. F

Re: [Finale] Triplet question

At 6:07 PM -0500 2/09/04, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 09 Feb 2004, at 05:01 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: It looks to me that the difference between your first solution and this quarter rest - eighth rest - a triplet consisting of: an eighth note followed by a sixteenth note, half rest is

Re: [Finale] Triplet question

At 8:06 AM -0500 2/09/04, Darcy James Argue wrote: Okay, In 4/4, one normally "shows" beat 3 of a measure when it contains eighth note values or smaller. However, I've run into a situation where my source has the following rhythm: quarter rest - eighth rest - a triplet consisting of: two eighth

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

At 11:11 AM -0500 2/09/04, Darcy James Argue wrote: There's still all of Sibelius's blatant claims along the lines of "Finale can't do this," or "Sibelius is the *only* music notation program that does that." There are a couple of unique features that caught my eye when I saw the Sibelius 2 d

Re: [Finale] Lyrics in Sibelius (Was: 2k5 features (was Expression Metatools))

on 2/8/04 10:17 AM, William Roberts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and having to rely on e.g. > plug-ins for word extensions etc. has meant that I'd rather use Sib than > Finale. FYI, word extensions are automatic starting in Fin2004. ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Re: November Font

guy. Liudas - Original Message - From: "Christopher BJ Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Williams, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Rob Deemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 3:55 PM Subject: RE: [Fina

RE: [Finale] Re: November Font

At 4:05 PM -0500 2/07/04, Williams, Jim wrote: Interesting...Mr. Piechaud is also the designer of "Human Playback." Jim And his name means "hot magpie" in French, like the bird, though the word is often used to denote someone who talks too much. 8-) _

Re: [Finale] Expression Metatools

Richard makes a good point, yet Clay's original question stands: Why not be able to click in the score with a metatool and get a STAFF attached expression that uses the last Staff List, and is individually positionable? Currently, you CAN get Finale to remember the last staff list used, which i

Re: [Finale] Problem with chord symbols using Jazz font

Title: Re: [Finale] Problem with chord symbols using Jazz fon At 3:45 PM -0500 2/04/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no trouble using the chord tool with the Maestro font, but when I use the Jazz font I have a problem with minor seven flat five chords. Normally I use a lower case B for the fla

Re: [Finale] New Discovery with Articulations

At 2:56 PM -0500 2/02/04, David W. Fenton wrote: Maybe everyone else already knew this, but I just discovered that with the articulation tool you can click-drag to enclose a group of notes and apply an articulation to the group. It also works with metatools (e.g., hold the S key and click drag a gr

Re: [Finale] "transposing" on a percussion staff

At 12:55 AM -0500 2/02/04, Rich Caldwell wrote: These are really old questions I'm sure, but I can't find answers to them: I really hope someone will tell me there can be a way to transpose notes that are on a percussion staff (w/ a defined percussion map). I'm trying to take existing music and

Re: [Finale] Tubas and 8vb

At 11:20 AM + 1/22/04, Colin Broom wrote: If one has a very low register part for tuba, using the lowest notes, does anyone know whether tubists generally prefer to read leger lines or an 8ve symbol? I'm guessing an 8ve symbol is better, but I know some instrumentalists prefer to read leger li

Re: [Finale] Finale for Mac OSX delivered

At 10:19 AM -0500 1/19/04, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Got my FinMac2004 just now by UPS, free shipping as promised, though I had to pay Canadian sales tax to the UPS guy. OK, first look. Installation went without a hitch. I registered right away by internet, no problem. I had to look up my

Re: [Finale] Finale for Mac OSX delivered

At 9:26 AM -0600 1/19/04, tim-cates wrote: when did you pre-order? just curious TC Right on the first day the announcement was made, back in the summer, I think. Christopher ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/l

[Finale] Finale for Mac OSX delivered

Got my FinMac2004 just now by UPS, free shipping as promised, though I had to pay Canadian sales tax to the UPS guy. OSX only, so I have to reboot, install, and get MIDI working. I also am leaving town in a couple of hours, so I may not have time to give a report before a couple of days. Though

Re: [Finale] Changing Font within Smart Shape Palette

At 5:50 PM +0100 1/17/04, Giovanni Andreani wrote: Hello I hope someone can help me with this: I'm transcribing music for solo piano and would like to change the font of the 8va/8vb tool within the Smart Shape palette (the one octave higher symbol is the one I intend to use). Is there any way to do

Re: [Finale] Different Lyrics for different layers...

At 12:42 AM + 1/16/04, John Bell wrote: At 6:52 pm -0500 15.01.2004, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: The right-most one is stupid (meaning stupid because I can't figure out a use for it.) It's for lyrics you haven't yet entered. I guess I'm still stupid, because I can&

Re: [Finale] Different Lyrics for different layers...

At 7:06 PM -0400 1/15/04, Taris L Flashpaw wrote: I don't know if this has been discussed here before, but I was wondering if there was a way to attach different lyrics to different layers of a single staff. For example, I'm working on a choral piece right now and the sopranos divide in two for

Re: [Finale] Finale class

At 4:09 PM + 1/14/04, Javier Ruiz wrote: Am I the only one who has received this? Dear Macintosh Customer, We are happy to report that the Finale Macintosh OS X disc has completed our rigorous testing cycle with flying colors and is currently in production. We have made arrangements to expedi

Re: [Finale] Reducing the size of time signatures, clefs, accidentals?

At 2:02 PM -0800 1/12/04, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 01:41 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 1:25 PM -0800 1/12/04, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: That changes EVERY instance of that item. What if you only

Re: [Finale] Reducing the size of time signatures, clefs, accidentals?

At 1:25 PM -0800 1/12/04, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: That changes EVERY instance of that item. What if you only want some items smaller or larger? Particularly, I have been looking for a way to have the parenthesized sharp, flat

Re: [Finale] Reducing the size of time signatures, clefs, accidentals?

At 11:01 AM -0600 1/12/04, Richard Huggins wrote: George, go Options > Select Default Fonts > Notation > and after that item-by-item select Clef, Time Signature and whatever else you want smaller. For each one, click the Set Font button and change the size for the selected element from its default

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

At 5:19 PM -0500 1/09/04, David H. Bailey wrote: Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 10:46 AM -0500 1/09/04, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 10:02 AM 1/9/2004, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Your last sentence illustrates my point. Why do trombones (and tubas) get off easily, while trumpets have to transpose

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

At 10:46 AM -0500 1/09/04, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 10:02 AM 1/9/2004, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Your last sentence illustrates my point. Why do trombones (and tubas) get off easily, while trumpets have to transpose? What? First of all, from the player's point of view, it's the trumpe

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

At 9:23 AM -0500 1/09/04, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 08:47 AM 1/9/2004, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: But that doesn't explain why the open note on the standard band instrument is written C, but sounds Bb. Why not change it so that all trumpet players read Bb and play Bb, on the usual instr

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

oncert pitch it would make trumpet playing a lot more complicated. Same for saxes, clarinets, Oboe/English Horn, and all the transposing instruments. Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 5:43 PM -0500 1/08/04, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: That's why I said this was a religious debate. The

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

At 8:56 PM -0500 1/08/04, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: I've heard lots of preferences expressed on this list from composers and conductors, but no horror stories. Has anyone actually encountered an in-the-flesh, contemporary objection to one or the other that resulted in a refused or aborted perform

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

At 5:43 PM -0500 1/08/04, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: That's why I said this was a religious debate. There ultimately are no compelling arguments on either side. It's the same answer I give to my students when they ask why trumpets transpose. It's not because it's easier to read (like alto clef

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

At 3:54 PM -0500 1/08/04, John.Howell wrote: Christopher wrote: Well, the problem with octave clefs is that those instruments DON'T read in those clefs, they read in regular treble and bass clef, and use of an octave clef for say, double bass, (or even worse, guitar or glock, for which parts ar

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

At 10:45 AM -0500 1/07/04, dumusic wrote: I generally find "C Scores" very difficult to use. I have never met a conductor who didn't prefer transposed scores. I'm not saying there aren't any, I just haven't met them. Christopher ___ Finale mailing li

Re: [Finale] Explode!

At 3:48 AM -0800 1/07/04, Philip Aker wrote: Well, I'm just talking about the essential parts of a composition, not the orchestration. And in that, I certainly agree with you. My name with my students for what you are calling "parts" is "gesture." I think I got that from one of my 20th century

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

At 11:04 PM -0500 1/06/04, Darcy James Argue wrote: Chris Smith: Well, the problem with octave clefs is that those instruments DON'T read in those clefs, Well, sure, but a bari sax or bass clarinet doesn't (normally) read in bass clef, either. Those clefs don't go on the *parts*, they go on the

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

At 8:53 PM -0500 1/06/04, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 06 Jan 2004, at 07:56 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 6:47 PM -0500 1/06/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 06/01/2004 23:44:39 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The conductor (who is looking at the score) wants to

Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score

Title: Re: [Finale] No key signature on contemporary score At 6:47 PM -0500 1/06/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 06/01/2004 23:44:39 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The conductor (who is looking at the score) wants to know what the piece SOUNDS likeso write every

[Finale] to Hal Owen

To Hal Owen, Hal, I tried to reply to your private message, but your server rejected my email. Heavy duty spam filters, most likely. Any suggestions as to how I can email you without the filters cutting in? Christopher ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Explode!

y with a lot if it doesn't last very long, and you can't get away with much if that's all you got. (words of one my composition teachers.) Sorry to get off the topic of classical music, but as I get older, I see more and more similarity and less and less difference between the var

RE: [Finale] Still having trouble with chord spacing

Title: RE: [Finale] Still having trouble with chord spacing Or in Speedy Entry (with automatic music spacing turned off) just drag the note to the left or right (or up or down, but you don't want to do that this time!) Or in the Measure tool, click the lower handle of the right-hand barline. You

Re: [Finale] How to reduce note crowding?

Title: Re: [Finale] How to reduce note crowding? At 4:05 PM -0500 1/05/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi;   When entering notes for a lead sheet, they don't crowd that much, but when I want to put the chords in using the Chord tool, it runs the chords together. Apparently the note spacing algorithm

Re: [Finale] Translation

At 6:44 PM +0100 1/05/04, Pierre Bailleul wrote: Dear Christopher PB> Petite tournerie = ? CB> I have never heard this expression, and I can't find it in my Petit Robert or any of my music books. Could it mean a flam, ruff, drag, or 5-stroke roll? Or does it refer to the "Hawaii Five-O" which is

Re: [Finale] Translation

At 3:26 PM +0100 1/05/04, Pierre Bailleul wrote: Hi all, I'm working on a pedagogical book about drums, and I like to ask you some translations of french words : Conseil = advice? Right Exercices = Exercises? Right Etude = Study? If you are talking about a musical piece written to practice a pa

Re: [Finale] Explode!

At 6:56 AM -0800 1/02/04, Philip Aker wrote: On Wednesday, Dec 31, 2003, at 12:15 US/Pacific, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: I often write for big band, and homophonic sections are easily entered by holding down big fat 4 or 5 part chords on the MIDI keyboard with one hand while entering the note

Re: [Finale] Explode!

At 9:54 AM -0800 12/31/03, Philip Aker wrote: On Wednesday, Dec 31, 2003, at 06:25 US/Pacific, David H. Bailey wrote: But the complaint about Finale's explode function not copying unison sections to all exploded parts... While I do agree with folks who think that a part-savvy Explode should be b

Re: [Finale] Explode!

At 1:03 PM +1100 12/30/03, helgesen wrote: Situation- 1st and 2nd flute parts, lots of unison and some complex divisi. Therefore done as seperate parts, flute 1 and flute 2. Explode music does the divisi fine, but only puts unison line in top part. I Have looked at dialogue box carefully, but can f

Re: [Finale] Explode!

At 8:13 PM -0600 12/30/03, Randolph Peters wrote: Well, you can wait for MakeMusic to add features and fix bugs which may never happen, or you can get a very responsive turnaround with Robert and Tobias. I've emailed them both about small bugs in their plugins in the past and have gotten fixes s

Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question

At 1:20 PM -0800 12/19/03, Philip Aker wrote: On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 12:28 PM, Weldon Whipple wrote: The turning point for me was when I travelled from Minnesota (where I lived at the time) to Toronto. Trawna! But try Gander Newfoundland (and points north), for an ear opener on pronunc

Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question

At 11:11 PM -0800 12/18/03, Mark D Lew wrote: On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 01:46 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Hmm, I and my immediate family pronounce "obliterate" and "oligarchy" with long o sounds, and "onerous" with a short o. So much for

Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question and Printer

Title: Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question and Printer At 1:58 PM -0500 12/18/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 18/12/2003 18:53:50 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: know that "Glo-ster" ("Glouchestershire") is in a song. Anyone know a song with "Bal-muh" ("Baltimore")

Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question

At 12:18 PM -0600 12/18/03, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: A review of my dictionary shows that all of the multi words which begin with a long "O", including among others, obey, open, over, onerous, and Otolaryngologyst, seem to have the long 'o' as a separate syllable, and those where the o is short,

[Finale] Finmac2004 lateness, continued

have some important work to do while you're waiting for Finale 2004. We're doing our best to hurry and get the software right for a January release.   Thanks for your patience.   Best wishes,     Sean Lafleur Chairman and CEO MakeMusic! Inc.   -Original Message----- From:

Re: [Finale] Up beats (pickup beats?) anacruses

Title: Re: [Finale] Up beats (pickup beats?) anacruses At 2:30 PM -0500 12/16/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am reading the instructions correctly the way to format up beats, whether they occur at the start of a piece, or especially if they occur elsewhere, so that they are not counted as extr

[Finale] Re: Templates for Part Extraction

At 11:07 AM -0800 12/12/03, Rob Deemer wrote: Lee Monroe, a professional copyist down in Orlando has a company called Express Music Services and has a bunch of wonderful articles on their website on being a professional copyist. snip The article in question can be found here: http://shop.store.y

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